Longing: Selected Poems (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Gil De Biedma, Jaime

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872862771 ISBN 13: 9780872862777

Publisher: City Lights Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

The poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma, the most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war, is finally, after years of censorship under Generalissimo Franco, reaching a huge audience in Spain. His poems capture the mood of post-civil war Spain and of cosmopolitan Barcelona, where the poet belonged to a celebrated literary movement within the antifascist resistance. His poems are ironic and urban, satiric and unusually Mediterranean. The poet profiled in his poetry—defiant, self-mocking, with a nostalgic tango in the background—has become a legendary figure in the long struggle of the Spanish t emerge from the dictatorship modern and free.
Jaime Gil de Biedma was born in Barcelona in 1929. He studied law, and then worked and lived in Manila for long periods. He died of AIDS in 1990. James Nolan is the author of Why I Live in the Forest and What Moves Is Not the Wind (Weslyan University Press), and the translator of Pablo Neruda’s Stones of the Sky (Copper Canyon).

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Language Notes:

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

Review:

After The Death Of Jaime Gil De Biedma
Against Jaime Gil De Biedma
All Saints Day
Anniversay Song
Ars Poetica
Arts Of Growing Old
The Bad Year
Barcelona Ja No Es Bona, Or My Solitary Spring Walk
A Body Is A Man's Best Friend
Cafe Idyll
Childhood And Confessions
Days In Pagsanjan
De Vita Beata
During The Invasiobn
Elegy In Memory Of The French Song
From Here To Eternity
From Now On
Great Expectations
He's Come To That Time
Homeless Ghosts
Hymn To Youth
I Shal Never Be Young Again
I Try To Give Shape To My War Experience
If Only For A Moment
In Luna Castle
Nights In The Month Of June
Nostalgie De La Boue
Pandemic And Celste
Paris, Postcard From Heaven
Piazza Del Popolo
The Poem-writing Game
Queen
Ruins Of The Third Reich
Sad October Night, 1959
Tale Of A Poor Young Man
Years Of Triumph
Yesterday Morning, Today
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0872862771
• ISBN 13: 9780872862777
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 120