Victor Manuel Mendiola – författare

'Where Words Like Monarchs Fly' brings Mexican poetry to the fullness of its senses in English with all the music of the meaning, richness of metaphor and humour. It introduces Jose Emilio Pacheco, Gabriel Zaid, Homero Aridjis and Elsa Cross-born in the thirties and the forties-along with the fifties generation they have inspired. Covering twenty-five years of development and ten poets in full representation by each, this book is essential for understanding the immediacies of new Mexican verse. In translation by prize-winning Canadian poets Kate Braid, Sylvia Dorling, George McWhirter, Caroline Davis Goodwin, Karen Cooper, Arthur Lipman, Iona Whishaw and Raul Peschiera, the English versions have already attracted a wide readership in 'The New Republic', 'Modern Poetry in Translation', 'PRISM international', 'London Magazine' and others. "The original material shone through as fresh, biting analyses of the world that the poets live in. Some of hem followed me around for days..." - Broken Pencil

This is the first collection in the UK for Mexican poet Victor Manuel Mendiola, although his work has been appearing in small-press editions, in others' collections and in journals for some time. His collected poems 1987-2002, Tan oro y negro (UNAM, Mexico City), won New York's Premio Latino de Literatura (Latino Literature Prize) in 2005. This Selected shows the full range of his work, but begins with his astonishing erotic long poem 'Tu Mano Mi Boca' (Your Hand, My Mouth), which was so well received in Ruth Fainlight's translation when it was included in her latest collection of poems.

Poeta, editor y ensayista, Víctor Manuel Mendiola nos ofrece en estas páginas un retrato detallado de la obra de Xavier Villaurrutia, al tiempo que un mural grupal de los Contemporáneos. Este ensayo alentará y guiará la necesaria lectura de la poesía de Villaurrutia tanto para su mejor comprensión como para su descubrimiento.

La poesía de Mendiola se funda en un seguimiento de las formas. Soñador de sonetos, las nubes son su emblema; siempre nubes pero siempre cambiantes, fugaces pasajeras, puras formas en vuelo. Va tras ellas dede la intimidad de su habitación y su vida cotidiana a la íntima lejanía del cielo.