| Alliance and Condemnation / Alianza Y Condena Contributor(s): Rodríguez, Claudio (Author), Silver, Philip W. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0983322023 ISBN-13: 9780983322023 Publisher: Swan Isle Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 861.64 |
| LCCN: 2014005253 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.48 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Spanish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A splash of sea foam. A sly sparrow. A man dodging the rain. From such mundane, unexpected moments, Spanish poet Claudio Rodr guez crafted his 1965 Alliance and Condemnation, a collection of poems that temper the joy of existence--the "bounty that turns my flawed breath into prayer"--with a questioning of empirical reality. In these pages are poems of love and hate, contrition and forgiveness, and the joys of sorrow and existence. Many of the poems are essentially parables that seem to address the immediacy of the world yet point beyond it toward philosophical and eternal values. The result is a conjoining of the real and the ideal, a frequent theme in Spanish literature. Many of these poems bridge the distance between the Spanish mystics, among them Saint John of the Cross and Saint Teresa, and the nature poetry of romanticism. Of all his creations, the radiant poems in Alliance and Condemnation offer the best imaginable introduction to his extraordinary life and work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rodriguez, Claudio: - Claudio Rodriguez (1934 99) was a critically acclaimed Spanish poet of the latter half of the twentieth century. Silver, Philip W.: - Philip W. Silver is distinguished professor emeritus at Columbia University and the author of several books, including "Ruin and Restitution: Reinterpreting Romanticism in Spain." |