Save Twilight: Selected Poems
The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music, art, and history, and most of his own emotional geography, Cortázar’s poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentinean sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian Romantic, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist...
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The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music, art, and history, and most of his own emotional geography, Cortázar’s poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentinean sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian Romantic, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life.
Translator's PrefaceTo Be Read in the Interrogative3The Good Boy5A Love Letter7After the Party9The Future11Nocturne13Chronicle for Caesar15The Gods21Air of the South23A friend tells me...25Time's Distribution31Polychrony33Get a Move on37The Hero53To a God Unknown57Profit and Loss63Pocket Poems...65The Knitters67Blue Funk73Sidewalks of Buenos Aires75Maybe the Most Beloved77Milonga79The Brief Love81After Such Pleasures83Happy New Year85One tradition that lasts...87Friends89The Other91Law of the Poem93A Sonnet in a Pensive Mood95The Ceremony97A Song for Nina99The Happy Child103Infinite Voyage105Speak, You Have Three Minutes107Clearance Sale111Moths113"Le Dome"115Clearcut117If I'm to Live119To a Woman121Autumn Summary125Poem127Stele at a Crossroads129Most of what follows...133The Visit137Dream on Fearlessly, Friend139Inflation Lies143The Getaway Polka147Return Trip149In an old Buenos Aires...151Background153The Pretender165
