| Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda Contributor(s): Cernuda, Luis (Author), Kessler, Stephen (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0872864316 ISBN-13: 9780872864313 Publisher: City Lights Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2004 Annotation: While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life's journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity; the poet doesn't set out to fantasize, or to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments in his life. But is it truly ours, this life we live?" Luis Cernuda (19021963) was one of the leading poets of Spain's Generation of 1927, which included Federico Garca Lorca, Rafael Alberti and Jorge Guilln. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 861.62 |
| LCCN: 2003025653 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5" W x 8.02" (0.40 lbs) 156 pages |
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| Publisher Description: While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life's journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity; the poet doesn't set out to fantasize, or to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments in his life. But is it truly ours, this life we live?" Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was one of the leading poets of Spain's Generation of 1927, which included Federico Garc a Lorca, Rafael Alberti and Jorge Guill n. |