| Concerning the Angels Contributor(s): Alberti, Rafael (Author), Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0872862976 ISBN-13: 9780872862975 Publisher: City Lights Books OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Language: Spanish Published: January 2001 Annotation: First published in Spain in the summer of 1929, Concerning the Angels (Sobre los angeles) is the great Spanish poet Rafael Alberti's masterpiece, on a par with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Pablo Neruda's Residencia en la tierra, and Federico Garcia Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York. It marks a major departure from the light-hearted tone of the poet's earlier verse, which was notably influence by Andalusian folksong. It is at once intensely imaginative and intimately realistic, a lyrical illumination of the poet's "dark night of the soul." Rafael Alberti, born in 1902, is the last surviving member of the so-called Generation of 1927 that included such notable Spanish poets Federico Garca Lorca, Vincente Alexandre, Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillen, and Luis Cernuda. Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno lives in Massachusetts and teaches in the program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
| Dewey: 861.62 |
| LCCN: 94030722 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.98" W x 9" (0.58 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in Spain in the summer of 1929, Concerning the Angels (Sobre los angeles) is the great Spanish poet Rafael Alberti's masterpiece, on a par with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Pablo Neruda's Residencia en la tierra, and Federico Garcia Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York. It marks a major departure from the light-hearted tone of the poet's earlier verse, which was notably influence by Andalusian folksong. It is at once intensely imaginative and intimately realistic, a lyrical illumination of the poet's "dark night of the soul." Rafael Alberti, born in 1902, is the last surviving member of the so-called Generation of 1927 that included such notable Spanish poets Federico Garc a Lorca, Vincente Alexandre, Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillen, and Luis Cernuda. Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno lives in Massachusetts and teaches in the program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. |