Uxío Novoneyra Livres

Poetry. Environmental Studies. THE UPLANDS: BOOK OF THE COUREL AND OTHER POEMS by the great Galician poet Uxío Novoneyra, translated by Erín Moure. Novoneyra is a poet and man of the land, and stands with Lorca as a poetic visionary of 20th century Spain. He was devoted to his region, the mountainous Courel, to its variant of Galician and to its names and ways, as well as to Galician culture as a whole, to the expression of all minority cultures and to freedom from imperialism, war, and economic expansionism. His oeuvre--rich in sound, syllable, silence and gesture--reveals him as an eco-poet before the concept existed. Os Eidos [THE UPLANDS], first published in 1955 and still in print today, is his monumental work.

Cando Uxío Novoneyra publicou Os Eidos, en 1955, a súa voz converteuse de inmediato nunha das máis intensas, renovadoras e salientables da poesía galega. En Os Eidos agroma unha poesía limpa, concisa e breve, que asenta nunha profunda identificación entre o poeta e a natureza, e que nos vai mostrando, desde un certo ensoñamento de quen escribe, un intimismo radical ligado á terra e aos sentimentos de pertenza a esta. Un libro de fondo silencio, esencial, cósmico, universal, irrepetible. A presente edición, preparada con motivo do “Ano Novoneyra 2010”, recolle fielmente os contidos da edición Os Eidos. Libro do Courel, editada por Edicións Xerais de Galicia en 1981, e revisada ao longo das décadas de 1980 e 1990 polo autor.