Spain, ed Lewis Hyde (various tr) bilingual

A longing for the light: Selected poems of Vicente Aleixandre

Aleixandre, Vicente

Harper&Row

Begun in 1939, barely four months after the close of the Spanish Civil War, these poems by the Nobel Laureate poet Vicente Aleixandre were written during a period of hardship and despair. In spite of his surroundings Aleixandre created the splendor of the shadow of a lost paradise that consisted of memory, nostalgia, yearning and illusion. This is the first full English version. The original Spanish text is included.

Shadow of Paradise (English and Spanish)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Shadow of Paradise

Rodríguez, Claudio

Harter, Hugh A.

Poetry

Book by Barnstone, Willis, Garrison, David, Aleixandre, Vicente

A Bird of Paper: Poems of Vicente Aleixandre

Barnstone, Willis

Garrison, David

Ohio Univ Pr

“For the Nobel Prize to come to Aleixandre now is fitting, not only because of the energy and intensity of his own poetry, but because it comes at this moment in Spanish history.”—The New York Times
 A Longing for the Light is the only available bilingual Spanish-English translation of the poetry of Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre. The collection spans the entirety of Aleixandre’s career—from early surrealist work to his complex and fascinating “dialogues.” It also contains prose interludes, an introduction by editor Lewis Hyde, and a descriptive bibliography.
Aleixandre was a member of Spain’s “Generation of 27” and was one of the few writers to remain in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. His passive but staunch political independence kept his writings banned for a decade, but his vivid poems of harmony and commonality would eventually symbolize much of what post-Civil War Spain aspired toward. As Aleixandre wrote in his Nobel lecture: “The poet, the truly determinative poet, is always a revealer; he is, essentially, a seer, a prophet.”
 From “With All Due Respect”:
 I don’t notice our clothes. Do you? Dressed up in three-hundred burlap suits, wrapped in my roughest heaviest get-up, I maintain a dawn-like dignity and brag of how much I know about nakedness.
 Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. He died in Madrid in 1984.

A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre

United States

Copper Canyon Press

Poemas de la consumación (Varia) (Spanish Edition)

Plaza Janes

Esplugas de Llobregat, Barcelona. 19 cm. 116 p., 1 h. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Colección 'Selecciones de Poesía Española'. Aleixandre, Vicente 1898-1984. Por Vicente Aleixandre. Indice .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-01-80913-4

Poemas de la consumación (Selecciones de poesía española) (Spanish Edition)

Diálogos del conocimiento (Selecciones de poesia española) (Spanish Edition)

Mis poemas mejores (Brh. Antologia Hispanica) (Spanish Edition)

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