Save Twilight: Selected Poems: Pocket Poets No. 53

By Julio Cortázar

Book Overview

No other poetry by Cort zar is in print
Cort zar is known as great novelist, but he was also a prolific poet, this volume represents the only poetry survey by Cort zar in print in the English language and the original Spanish.

New expanded edition better represents Cort zar's last project
This was the final project that Cort zar was working on before he passed away in 1984. These poems (in the Spanish, printed in the book along with the English) were chosen by Cort zar himself. This new edition preserves the project as it was meant to be seen by Cort zar with 20 pages restored from his selection.

A more complete picture of Cort zar's complex personality
Cort zar believed that poetry was central to his writing life, and these poems reveal many unseen sides of his complex personality and his love-hate relations with Argentina as well as an intimate glimpse of his personal life and obsession in his adopted home of Paris.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872867099
• ISBN13: 9780872867093
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

"If I'm to live without you, let it be hard and bloody"

Cortazar seizes the heart, the throat, the gut... every part of the body. As with most great poetry, critical and interpretive words will not suffice; poetry must speak for itself. Cortazar's simplicity and force lies in its ability to speak volumes all on its own. From his insistent "I accept this destiny of ironed shirts,/I get to the movies on time, I give my seat to old ladies." in "The Good Boy" to his exquisitely simple, "Everything I'd want from you/is finally so little/ because finally it's everything", Cortazar describes simply what it is to feel. Most importantly, this book is in Spanish and English, so linguistic purists will be able to compare the original with the translation (which for me is also the mark of an excellent book.)

some of the best poems i've read

julio cortazar's poems are truly great. they're simple, beautiful and sad. i recommend anybody who loves or likes poetry to read this book. i keep coming back to cortazar's poems all the time. his poems are written very beautifully. like this line " i was a tango lyric to your indifferent tune."

It'll leave you wondering...

... if you're dreaming, if you're breathing air or poetry. This book will make you want to write, it'll make you want to read it again and again, it'll sometimes leave you speechless and breathless, and some other times eager to go and tell others to read it. I must have read it as a whole at least eight times and some poems must've entered through my eyes at least 30 times. And I always return to it. It feels like home.

Great book!!

This was my first reading of this author and I loved it. His style has the right mix of subtlety and frankness(for lack of a better word). The book has each poem in Spanish as well as english.