Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Arturo Mantecón. Introduction by Túa Blesa. "I am in awe of Leopoldo María Panero. Not since Isadore Ducasse has the Hispanic world delivered such a haunted portrait of hell, in such refined, articulate style. Panero is now in my gallery of decipherers of the unknown. He is proof that real poets might come from a specific place but ultimately have no country; they belong to language itself and Panero's language is sheer revelation."—Ilan Stavans"If Panero's preoccupations—or his very life—remind one of any poet, it is Antonin Artaud. The same radical posture taken toward poetry and life, the same tremendous toll the world has levied on them. Hence the violence of the poems, hence the dark glow of their victory.—Alberto Blanco"If there is one poet who has forged a new world with their vision and language, that poet would have to be Leopoldo María Panero. His work is striking in its originality, and Panero is the only living poet who reaches deep into the human experience and pulls out the entrails regarding the true state of the human condition. Arturo Mantecón's translation of Panero's poetry is the best possible introduction for the English reader to this incredible body of work. Bravo!"—Alejandro Murguía

Like an Eye in the Hand of a Beggar

Literature & Fiction

Panero, Leopoldo

Poetry

Editions Michel Eyquem

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Arturo Mantecón. Introduction by Jack Hirschman. Leopoldo María Panero admits of himself that he is a "Communist, homosexual and paranoid schizophrenic"—who lives now in a mental hospital—an "outsider" poet of startling originality and sensuous impact. Arturo Mantecón's translations capture Panero's poetry with authenticity and sensivitity."What a revelation, what a discovery, what a gift to have these poems of Leopoldo Panero in such convincing English as Arturo Mantecón's. This is life-and-death poetry, prodigious imagination, language flirting with madness yet controlled, expression pushed to its limits in pursuit of unspeakable truths. A moving, profound, extraordinary book."—Stephen KesslerLeopoldo Panero integrates instinct and emotion, intellect, humanity, and dream, often in lyrically gritty images, seductive in their multiple states of being. Imagine Panero as some odd Virgil, a guide knocking at the gates of a rising hell and a falling heaven, setting out with 'the amplitude of words' to pursue 'the mystery of that which names itself.' Arturo Mantecón lends focused sensibility and depth to the challenge of reconstructing Panero's 'mad' revelations, in all their beauty, precision, and grace."—William O'Daly

My Naked Brain: Selected Poems

Swan Scythe Press

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Like an Eye in the Hand of a Beggar

My Naked Brain: Selected Poems