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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872862715 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100004560 02 0872862712 03 9780872862715 15 9780872862715 BC 1 A01 Ruy Sanchez, Alberto Alberto Ruy Sanchez <b>Alberto Ruy Sanchez</b> has written many works of fiction as well as literary and art criticism. He was an editor of Octavo Paz's <i>Vuelta</i> and is now editor and chief of <i>Artes de Mexico</i>.<br> 2 B06 Schafer, Mark Mark Schafer <p>Mark Schafer has translated novels, short stories, essays, and poetry by many Latin American authors including Virgilio Piñera, Gloria Gervitz, Jesús Gardea, Eduardo Galeano, and Antonio José Ponte. Schafer has received numerous grants and awards for his translations, including the Robert Fitzgerald Prize and two Translation Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.</p><p>Schafer's translation, <em>Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poetry of David Huerta </em>was published in January 2009 by Copper Canyon Press. (For more information on this book and to hear Huerta read his poetry in Spanish go to <a href="http://www.beforesaying.com">http://www.beforesaying.com</a>.) His translation of Belén Gopegui's novel <i>La escala de los mapas </i>(<i>The Scale of Maps</i>) will be published by City Lights in January of 2011. Schafer is also a visual artist who makes provocative collages with maps, which can be viewed on his <a href="http://www.marksonpaper.us">website</a>.<b><br /><br /></b></p> 01 eng 124 00 124 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Fiction 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Latin America 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Literature in Translation 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Middle East/North Africa 01 <P>Set in an imaginary walled city off the coast of Morocco, Mogador traces the days and nights of Fatma, a young woman who finds herself suddenly seized by desire. As she wanders the city's maze of erotic pleasures, she encounters other desiring bodies and the desperate worlds those desires create. Here is a vital fusion of Latin America magical realism with Arabic geometric and mystical imagery, written in a style the author calls a "prose of intensities."</P> <P>Alberto Ruy Sanchez has written many works of fiction as well as literary and art criticism. He was an editor of Octavo Paz's Vuelta and is now editor and chief of Artes de Mexico.</P> <P>Mark Schafer has translated works by Virgilio Piniera and, with Cedric Belfrage, The Book of Eduardo Galeano.</P> 02 Set in an imaginary walled city off the coast of Morocco, Mogador traces the days and nights of Fatma, a young woman who finds herself suddenly seized by desire. As she wanders the city's maze of erotic pleasures, she encounters other desiring bodies... 08 "This extremely talented Mexican writer...assumes is own Islamic roots in one of the best-written novels of recent years. He is truly a painter of dreams, who manages to fuse the most unblemished sensuality with the most transparent spirituality." Luce Lopez Baralt 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100004560/images/87286100004560L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100004560/images/87286100004560S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100004560 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19921101 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19921101 01 02 10.95 USD