Concerning the Angels (Spanish Edition)

Alberti, Rafael

ISBN 10: 0872862976 / ISBN 13: 9780872862975

Published by City Lights Publishers, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Concerning the Angels (Spanish Edition)
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 0872862976
• ISBN 13: 9780872862975
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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 García 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.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish