THE TRANSLATION TO HEAVEN by Iván Argüelles

THE TRANSLATION TO HEAVEN & Related Poems

Iván Argüelles

Iván Argüelles has been publishing what one might call liberating poetry since 1978. Now over eighty, he gives us "Translation to Heaven":

like the time in the country by the temple

out of the sky fell like a mirror copulating

a message on a paper of water hand held

called the Translation-to-Heaven ineffable

so much that one could no longer behold

things of this earth in the same dimension

The power or intelligence of Argüelles’ work and inspiration has not diminished in the nearly fifty years he has been publishing. Labels fly from his oeuvre like leaves in a windstorm. “Surrealist” is one that has been applied but also dismissed. This brief passage in a monumental work tells us the source of the restlessness and panache of his output. In an irreligious age, in which one believes in chaos but not in inspiration, he affirms the sudden, stunning shift into the infinite: “translation” is the deep experience of the visionary, the transcendence that language (what you do with your langue) allows us to achieve. Not Surrealism, which was fundamentally an attack, but a fierce rising up of mind. - Jack Foley

380 pp.

$29 US

ISBN 9781938521843

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