The Unending Lightning: Selected Poems - Softcover

Hernández, Miguel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935296867 ISBN 13: 9780935296860

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, 1990

Synopsis

Spain, tr Edwin Honig, bilingual

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Hernandez (1910-1942) was one of the constellation of poets whose virtuosity and vigor helped make Madrid a literary nerve center in the 1920s and early '30s. His later poetry gave lyrical expression to the Loyalist cause in the Spanish Civil War. It also landed him in one of Franco's fearsome prisons, where he died. Honig, a poet and author best known for his accomplished translations of Lorca, has selected a sampling from Hernandez's five collections of poetry to introducewhy reintroduce? his work is out of print?eed this sensual, fiery poet to English-language-language ?eed readers. It's a praiseworthy undertaking: from the ardent sonnets of The Unending Lightning to the anguished defiance of his prison poems, Hernandez's poetry is g muscular, soulful and formidably imagined. This valuable edition is marred in two g respects: original texts and translations should have been set on facing pages rather than in two discrete clusters, and it's g disappointing to find that Honig saw fit to present only 19 poems by a poet whose stature deserves wider recognition outside the Hispanic world.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935296867
• ISBN 13: 9780935296860
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80