The Book, Behind the Dune
The Book, Behind the Dune by Andrés Sánchez Robayna, published by Shearsman Books in 2017, is a long unitary poem that explores the emergence of poetic consciousness within a world defined by beauty, eroticism, and the reality of evil. This edition, available in English for the first time, spans 132 pages and incorporates a rich tapestry of literary, artistic, and philosophical references, drawing influence from figures such as St. Augustine and Wordsworth.
Readers will find a meditation on the meaning of time and its manifestations in everyday life, as the poem reflects on historical time and the complexities of existence. The work addresses themes of pain and renewal, suggesting a world that is perpetually beginning anew. With its roots in European poetry and connections to Spanish and Portuguese literature, this edition invites readers to engage with the profound questions posed by Sánchez Robayna’s exploration of consciousness and reality.
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The Book, Behind the Dune is a long unitary poem about the birth of a poetic consciousness and its development in a world marked by the discovery of beauty, eroticism and the reality of evil. Influenced by St. Augustine, The Cloud of Unknowing and Wordsworth’s The Prelude, the poem, full of literary, artistic and philosophical references, is simultaneously a meditation on the meaning of time and its manifestations–its epiph-anies–in a concrete life. The reflection on historical time leads the poet to the reality of “the pain of the world,” but also towards a world that is incessantly and continually beginning. As Yves Bonnefoy puts it, “Sánchez Robayna knows what ‘the new time’ expects of us which Rimbaud foresaw as ‘very severe’.”
The Book, Behind the Dune (El libro, tras la duna), already translated into French, Italian, Czech, German and Arabic, is presented here for the first time in English.
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