The Windmills (Los Molinos)
…and other Selected Translated Poetry, of: Juan Parra del Riego
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This is Dennis’ 39th book, 12th in Poetry. He lives in Minnesota and Peru with his wife, Rosa. He has a worldwide audience, and has traveled extensively. Back picture is of the author at the Barnes and Nobel bookstore, February, 2006, Har Mar Mall, Roseville, Minnesota, doing a book signing.
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Juan Parra del Riego (King of the Peruvian Poets) his poetry describes and interweaves the thorny parts of his life with love, tenderness, rowdiness, hunger, restlessness, and compassion. The master of Polirritmo in the time of Modernism in poetry. He lived only until his 31st Birthday. Born in Huancayo, Peru, he moved to Uruguay, where he started his own movement, married Blanca Luz Brum, whom he had one child with. A first time translation of a Great poet.
Included in the book are, four complimentary poems by other poets; and tributes by the author, for Juan Parra del Riego. The book has been a seventeen-month project by the author and his wife.
From one of the top 100-reviewers, at Amazon Books, International (largest bookseller in the world), by Robert C. Ross, the list author says (reference to the book: “Peruvian Poems”): "Dennis L. Siluk is enormously prolific and very well travelled…." The poems are based on places and experiences in Peru, written in both English and Spanish, and provide a fascinating backdrop in preparation for a trip to Peru." (1-1-2009) Also this book was shown on National Television by Cesar Hildebrandt, considered ‘…a very important book for Peruvian Culture.’
About the Author
Dennis L. Siluk, has written Englisih and Spanish cultural poetry for Peru, for the past 9-years, living in Huancayo, in the Andes, and Lima, by the ocean. He has studied the Peruvian poets, and in particular Juan Parra del Riego, and his style, life and times. For seventeen months, Dr. Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D., has worked on this project of selecting, editing, and translating the best fifteen translatable poems of Juan Parra, along with getting advise from his journalist friends on the Poet, in the poet's hometown, Huancayo. Mr. Siluk is a poet laureate himself, and has received many awards for his endeavors in promoting poetry in Peru. Dr. Siluk lives with is wife Rosa in Minnesota and Peru.