Today, entirely by accident, I learned of the existence of this bundle of eight chapbooks published in 2017 by the Center for Humanities at CUNY as part of a project called Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. My interest in this particular number (
Series VII) centers on two of the chapbooks, which bear the collective title of
“Querido Pablito"/"Julissimo Querido," Selected Correspondence, 1958-1971 (Parts I & II). These volumes contain translations of the letters between Julio Cortázar and his first US translator (and literary agent), Paul Blackburn. I'm familiar with portions of the correspondence from the five-volume Spanish-language edition of Cortázar's
Cartas, but I despaired of ever seeing them published here. (Some time ago I translated and posted brief excerpts
here and
here.)
The CUNY chapbooks are a little tricky to find at the moment, in part because CUNY's offices have been shuttered by the pandemic. If it helps, the ISBN for this series is 9780997679625.
World Without Borders has
an excerpt from the CUNY volumes as well as
an interview with the editors, Ammiel Alcalay, Jacqui Cornetta, Alison Macomber, and Alexander Soria.
In addition to the two chapbooks described above, the next installment in the CUNY series (
Series VIII) contains a chapbook dedicated to a translation of a portion of Cortázar's posthumously-published study of Keats,
Imagen de John Keats.More information to come.
2 comments:
I was going to suggest trying Small Press Distribution, but I see that the CUNY site links there, and that this volume isn't available.
Yes, I corresponded with one of the editors and they've suspended distribution for now. I'll catch up with it eventually.
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