To World - Mundar - A 2008 Collection

Sep 21, 2026

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To World - Mundar presents Juan Gelman’s 2008 poetry collection in English translation by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. The poems interrogate nature, society, and thought itself through an unyielding lyric approach—critical without prejudice, tied to both personal and collective experience, and driven by emotion. This edition foregrounds Gelman’s life work as a journalist, translator, and moral critic, positioning the book as a defining masterpiece of his later poetry.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages278

Reading Time7 h 8 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

La manzana - The Apple

Compañeros - Comrades

El pato salvaje - The Wild Duck

Amistades - Friendships

Escondrijos - Hideaways

La alondra - The Lark

Debajo - Below

Ahí - There

Accidentes - Accidents

La conversación con Mara esta noche - The Conversation with Mara Tonight

Líneas - Lines

Callejones - Alleyways

Cosmos - Cosmos

Tarde - Evening

El niño - The Child

Lejanías - Distances

One of the greatest poets the world has today” —Jost SARAMAGO.Nobel Prize in Literature,I998 earthworksGEMANTranslated by Katherine M.Hedeen and Victor Rodriguez NúnezWORLD AR JUAN GELMAN(Buenos Aires,I930-Mexico City,20L4),the mostread,influential,and renownedLatin American poet of our times,published more than 3o books ofpoetry and won countless awardsincluding the Cervantes Prize(2007),the top literary honor inSpanish-language literature.Botha literary and moral paradigmwithin and outside Argentina,Gelman worked as a journal-ist and translator,spent manyyears exiled in Europe and LatinAmerica,and remained an ardentcritic of imperialist politics andhuman rights violations through-out his life.Here,for the first timein English,is his 2008 collectionMundar/To World,simply amasterpiece. Cover design by The Cover Factory In To World,poems interrogate everything:nature,society,and thought itself,with no preju-dice or even principle.In other words,they don'tfollow any rule,tradition,or discipline;theyare decidedly critical.Thought is not reducedto philosophical,ethical,religious,political,oraesthetic interpretations.Rather,we are beforethought in its totality,unwilling to recognizeborders—although never in a pure state,notfalling into speculalion,into thinking just forthinking's sake.Thought is always related toexperience,both personal and collective,andabove all,emotion.It never once stops beingthought through image,that is to say,lyrical.This poetry speaks of poetry;it takes it all on:theobjective and subjective,the real and imagined,I and other.It ventures into virgin territory,onthe outskirts of romanticism,realism,symbolism,and the avant-garde.Always a model of rebel-liousness and freedom,a lesson in devotion andrigor,Gelman's work places him among today'sbest poets. "Death is lying when it says Juan Gelnan's no He's still alive in all of us who loved him,in allof us who read him,in all of us who ve heard inhis voice what's deepest inside of us. We'll never find words to express our gratitudeto the man who was many,who was us,and stillis,in the words he left us. —EDUARDo GALEANO,author of Open Teins of 861. 64 GEL | livorpoo!
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FAQs

Who translated To World - Mundar into English?

Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez translated the collection into English.

What topics do the poems in To World - Mundar explore?

The poems interrogate nature, society, and thought itself.

How does the collection describe the nature of thought and emotion in the poems?

Thought is presented in its totality, always linked to experience and driven by emotion, carried through lyrical imagery.

Sep 21, 2026

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