http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/rss/books/RSS.xml The latest new books from 'Swan Isle Press' en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT 1440 http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo12332280.html Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram&#243;n Jim&#233;nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jim&#233;nez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements&#8212;the wellsprings of any kind of creation&#8212;are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret.A treasure for poets and writers, The Complete Perfectionist includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer and shows perfection as a process of &#8220;becoming&#8221; rather than an end product. In these insightful pages, a poet haunted by perfection reveals his methods of writing and revision, and measures the social and ethical dimensions of el trabajo gustoso, or pleasurable work. This revised and expanded edition includes many aphorisms recently published in Spanish and not previously included.&#160; <p>Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram&#243;n Jim&#233;nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jim&#233;nez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements&#8212;the wellsprings of any kind of creation&#8212;are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret.</p><div>A treasure for poets and writers, <i>The Complete Perfectionist </i>includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer and shows perfection as a process of &#8220;becoming&#8221; rather than an end product. In these insightful pages, a poet haunted by perfection reveals his methods of writing and revision, and measures the social and ethical dimensions of <i>el trabajo gustoso</i>, or pleasurable work. This revised and expanded edition includes many aphorisms recently published in Spanish and not previously included.</div><p>&#160;</p> Literature and Literary Criticism: Poetry Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT Juan Ramón Jiménez; Christopher Maurer 9780983322009