Horses in the Air and Other Poems (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Jorge Guillén

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872863522 ISBN 13: 9780872863521

Publisher: City Lights Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

Winner of the 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.

Jorge Guillen, one of the greatest poets of the Generation of '27, went into voluntary exile during the Spanish Civil War, and spent many years in the US and Latin America.

While some poems in Horses in the Air were written in America, many of them had never been translated into English before. Guillen's view of Europe from the New World, his experience as an exile and an immigrant, as well as his encounters with Spanish America provide insights into our shared culture that are fresh and relevant today.

"This is the best possible introduction to a major Spanish poet. Jore Guillen sang memorably of the joys and sorrows of mortal existence: of life together and life alone. His luminous intelligence, cordiality toward the reader, vast knowledge of literature, and epigrammatic wit are governed by an impeccable sense of form. In selecting from his work and capturing his voice, Cola Franzen has proven herself, once again, the most graceful and faithful of translators." —Christopher Maurer

"A noteworthy retrospective of an overlooked and undervalued poet."--Library Journal

". . . well represents the breadth and depth of the poet's marvelous achievement."--Kirkus Reviews

Jorge Guillén was born in Valladolid, Old Castile. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 he was arrested and detained briefly in Pamplona as a political prisoner. He left Spain in 1938 to go into voluntary exile in the United States, where he remained until after the death of Franco. In 1978 he returned to live in Spain. He died in Málaga in 1984.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

Review

About Forgetting
About The Passage
Air All Around
Almost Too Much
Along The Verge
Ardent October
Barely Autumn
Beard With Nest
Blood In The River
Body Alone
Cartagena Of The Indies
Christmas In Piazza Navona
Circus Moonbeam
Clear Stream
Consolation
Corner
Corner Bar
Courageous Love
Cult Of Aurora
Date
Emptiness
The Exile
Expectancy
Extinction
Figments
Firefly
Freckles
The Greatest Commotion
Halfway Daphne
The Hills Of Bogota
Horses In The Air
Hotel Guest
Hotel Of Both Worlds
If The Critic Were To Read
In Plain Sight
Invasion
Journeys
Jungle Animal
Land Breeze
Leaves Of Grass In The Wind
Letters
Like You, Reader
Living
Man As Terrible Demiurge
Meaningful Landscape
The Mediterranean Sea
Ministry, Minstrelsy
The Minstrel And His Listener
The Muse In Retirement
My Dear Sir
Natural Or Divine
Now This Is Really Absurd
Original Silence
Palace
Penury
Perpetual Motion
Power Of Perez
A Prison
Remembering I Discover
The Restless
The Return To The Place Where I Once Lived
Ripeness
Rivers Of China
Ruins With Fear
Salvation Over The Water
Sea Air
Seen And Remembered
Silver Of Spring
So Beautiful Still
St. Sebastian
The Supreme Ones
Suspicion Of Seal
That Young Man
Those Summers
Transition
Treasurer
Twelfth Of October
Ultramadrigal
Venice: Festival
Vespertine Shore
The Weary Man's Dawn
Who Has Not Said Stupid Things?
A Window
Within The Castle Still
Zoological Garden
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0872863522
• ISBN 13: 9780872863521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250