THE POETESS COUNTS TO 100 AND BOWS OUT: Selected Poems

Ana Enriqueta Teran, , trans. from the Spanish by Marcel Smith. . Princeton, $32.50 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-691-09671-1

Born in Venezuela, where she still lives and works, in 1918, Terán published 12 books of verse between 1946 and 1992. Univ. of Alabama emeritus English professor Smith here presents a range of her steely and beautiful work, with original en face: "Simply complex, the heart turns aside/ from knowing the end where now/ becomes a robust darkness swelling/ grim light into reflex abyss." (Jan.)

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