Alan Page currently lives in Mexico City. He teaches English literature at UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico,) is studying Lacanian psychoanalysis at Dimensión Psicoanalítica, and is a Doctoral Candidate at the New York University English Department. His doctoral dissertation is on Anthropomorphism and the Vortex in William Blake's poetry. He works as a screenwriter, most recently on the forthcoming Mexican Tv series XY, and has been a translator for longer than he can remember. These days he tries to stick to translating only film and poetry. He is currently translating Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red into Spanish and a book of poems by the Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda into English. Alan Page has spent a lifetime being from neither here nor there. Email: [email protected]
Alan Page This is my second installment of translations of Antonio Gamoneda's poetry. The following are selections from Arden las Pérdidas (The Losses Burn) [2003]. Next month I will post an essay on repetition and dislocation in Gamoneda's poetry. As with the last set of poems, each poem between ——-'s is originally supposed to be…
[Below is my translation of Georgics, the first section of Antonio Gamoneda's book Libro del Frío (Book of Cold.) Gamoneda, born May 30th 1931, was winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2006 and it is difficult to overstate how largely he glowers over the world of Spanish and Latin American poetry, though he is little…
by Alan Page Mexico City traffic is a looped catastrophe, a rope that frays and frays but never snaps. Several years ago, hopelessly stuck in an utterly paralyzed Viaduct, it occurred to me that of all things made by man, our peculiar brand of traffic most resembled the Weather in all its unpredictable force and…