{"title":"Francisca Aguirre","description":"Francisca Aguirre began publishing later in life. Her poetry collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/products\/ithaca\" title=\"Ithaca\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIthaca\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e(BOA, 2004), was translated from the Spanish by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/ana-valverde-osan\" title=\"Ana Valverde Osan\"\u003eAna Osan\u003c\/a\u003e. The original Spanish \u003cspan\u003epublication earned \u003cem\u003eIthaca\u003c\/em\u003e the 1971 Leopoldo Panero Poetry award. \u003c\/span\u003eAguierre has garnered many awards, including the prestigious Esquio Award, and in 2011 she won the National Prize in Poetry for her \u003cem\u003eHistoria de un anatomía\u003c\/em\u003e (Hiperión, 2010).  She lives in Spain with poet Felix Grande, a member of the second generation of post-civil war poets.","products":[{"product_id":"ithaca","title":"Ithaca","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner 1971 Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 50-page poem is a major contemporary Spanish poet's reworking of the Greek myth of Odysseus, but with one important alteration: This time the story is told from Penelope's perspective.  Upon its original Spanish publication, Ithaca earned the 1971 Leopoldo Panero Poetry award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIthaca\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And who has never been to Ithaca?\u003cbr\u003e Who is not familiar with her rugged environment,\u003cbr\u003e the sea ring that oppresses her,\u003cbr\u003e the austere intimacy she imposes on us,\u003cbr\u003e the silence in adding it draws for us?\u003cbr\u003e Ithaca summarizes us as a book,\u003cbr\u003e she goes with us to our very selves,\u003cbr\u003e she discovers for us the sound of waiting.\u003cbr\u003e Because waiting has a ring:\u003cbr\u003e it preserves the echo of voices that have departed.\u003cbr\u003e Ithaca reveals to us life's heartbeat,\u003cbr\u003e she makes us the accomplices of distance,\u003cbr\u003e blind sentinels of a path\u003cbr\u003e that is taking shape without us,\u003cbr\u003e that we will be unable to forget because\u003cbr\u003e ignorance does not know oblivion.\u003cbr\u003e It is painful to wake up one day\u003cbr\u003e and to gaze at the sea that enfolds us,\u003cbr\u003e that annoints us with salt and baptizes us like new children.\u003cbr\u003e We remember the days of shared wine,\u003cbr\u003e the words, not the echo;\u003cbr\u003e the hands, not the diluted gesture.\u003cbr\u003e I see the sea that surrounds me,\u003cbr\u003e the misty azure into which you became lost,\u003cbr\u003e I check the horizon with exhausted eagerness,\u003cbr\u003e I allow my eyes a moment\u003cbr\u003e to perform their beautiful function;\u003cbr\u003e then, I turn my back\u003cbr\u003e and I lead my footsteps toward Ithaca.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 2004 a\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions: \u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-929918-59-3\u003cbr\u003e Price: $20.00 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: November 2004 \u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-60-7 \u003cbr\u003e Price: $14.95 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: November 2004\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802203077,"sku":"1-929918-60-7","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418587653,"sku":"1-929918-59-3","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/ITHACA.jpg?v=1527683282"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/francisca-aguirre_04a92807-c3c8-4474-b4cf-63f1081e923f.jpg?v=1453305230","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/francisca-aguirre.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}