The Trees

Winner 2004 International Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry. Featuring La Tierra Gir para Acercarnos (The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer) from the Oscar-nominated film 21 Grams, this new translation of selected poems and prose by Venezuelas leading poet Eugenio Montejo is translated from the original Spanish by Australian poet Peter Boyle. Covering Montejos work from the 1960s to 2004 this major selection deals with universal themes of loss, death, family and love as well as reflecting on humanitys relationship to nature in an ever more materialistic and urbanized world. Montejos poetry would be of special interest to all readers of poetry as well as to those interested in understanding a Latin American perspective on modernization and globalization.