Haiku en zapoteco: de Oaxaca a Japón y de vuelta

Jane Hirshfield y Víctor Terán En conversación con el poeta y traductor David Shook
Tuesday, Jan 23, 2018 | 7:30pm Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library

Debido a su similar celebración de la belleza del mundo natural y su enfoque en la compacidad, la poesía contemporánea de la lengua zapoteca comparte mucho en común con el haiku japonés. El poeta Víctor Terán —que ha presentado su trabajo de Oaxaca a Londres— compartirá algunas de sus traducciones de las y los maestros japoneses de dicha tradición junto con su propio haiku zapoteca original, y la poetisa americana Jane Hirshfield hablará tanto de la forma haiku como de la manera en que el mundo natural informa a su propia obra. El programa culminará con la presentación de la nueva traducción de Terán de un poema de Hirshfield al zapoteco y una conversación entre ambos poetas, moderada por David Shook —traductor, poeta y editor de Phoneme Media.

Programa bilingüe español/ inglés

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Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield is the author of six collections of poetry, including After, Given Sugar, Given Salt, The Lives of the Heart, and The October Palace, as well as a book of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. She edited and co-translated The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Komachi & Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, and Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems. In 2004, Hirshfield was awarded the 70th Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by The Academy of American Poets, an honor formerly held by such poets as Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop. In 2012, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy. Her newest work, published spring 2015, is a volume of poetry titled The Beauty, and a book of essays titled Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World.

Víctor Terán

Víctor Terán was born in Juchitán de Zaragoza in 1958, and his work has been published extensively in magazines and anthologies throughout Mexico. His books of poetry include Sica ti Gubidxa Cubi (Like a new sun) and Ca Guichi Xtí’ Guendaranaxhii (The spines of love). Terán works as a media education teacher at the secondary level, on the Oaxacan Isthmus.

David Shook

David Shook is a poet, translator, and founder of Los Angeles-based nonprofit publishing house Phoneme Media. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Oxford, Shook has performed his poetry in dozens of countries, from the Bangla Academy in Dhaka, Bangladesh to London’s Southbank, South by Southwest to PEN Haiti. His writing has appeared in Ambit, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry, Poetry Review, and World Literature Today, among many other publications. He is a contributing editor to Ambit, Bengal Lights, theLos Angeles Review of Books, and World Literature Today. Follow Shook on Twitter @yearofpoetry and Instagram @dogamongmen

Foto: Textiles de Oaxaca, Mexico  (Maureen Moore)

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