Product Description: Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Kit Schluter. Jaime Saenz was born in 1921 in La Paz, Bolivia, the city where he was to spend his days until his passing in 1986. Poète maudit in letters and life, Saenz was rumored to have stolen a limb from a corpse at the university morgue, and to have brought a panther home to his wife on their wedding day...read more

Product Description: Jaime Saenz is arguably the greatest Bolivian writer of the twentieth century. His poetry is apocalyptic, transcendent, hallucinatory, brilliant--and, until recently, available only in Spanish. Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson's translations of Saenz's work have garnered much-deserved attention and acclaim...read more

Product Description: Recorrer esta distancia es una muestra del quehacer poético que el escritor boliviano Jaime Sáenz (1921-1986) llevó a cabo durante 30 años. Esta antología incluye los poemarios El escalpelo, Muerte por el tacto, Aniversario de una visión, Visitante profundo, Recorrer esta distancia, Bruckner y las tinieblas y La noche...read more