Desolation of the Chimera - Softcover

Cernuda, Luis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935210009 ISBN 13: 9781935210009

Publisher: White Pine Press, 2009

Synopsis

“In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity: the poet attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments of his life.”—Octavio Paz

Written between 1950 and 1962, the poems in this bilingual collection amount to the final poetic testament of one of Spain’s most important twentieth-century poets.

Luis Cernuda (1902–1963) was a leading member of Spain’s legendary Generation of 1927. He left Spain during the civil war in 1938 and never returned.

Stephen Kessler is a poet, translator, essayist, and editor.

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About the Author

Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was a leading member of Spain's legendary Generation of 1927-Lorca, Alberti, Aleixandre, Guillén, Salinas, Buñuel, Dalí, et al. He left Spain during the Civil War in 1938 and never returned, teaching first in Great Britain and then in Massachusetts before settling in Mexico in 1952. Stephen Kessler is a poet, translator, essayist and editor whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications across the United States since the late 1960s. He is the author of eight books and chapbooks of original poetry, most recently Burning Daylight (Littoral Press), and more than a dozen books of poetry and fiction in translation.

Edition details

• Publisher: White Pine Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935210009
• ISBN 13: 9781935210009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208