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Jardines Lejanos: Jardines Galantes, Jardines Místicos, Jardines Dolientes (Classic Reprint)

Literature & Fiction

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Poetry

Forgotten Books

Format Paperback Subject Literary Collections Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux

Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The great Spanish poet Juan RamÃ³n JimÃ©nez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, was a mystic as will as a poet, and the deep spirituality which infuses so much of his writing makes itself felt with special fervor throughout this remarkable new collection of poems.  Composed by JimÃ©nez between the years 1917 to 1920, the works in this grouping vanished mysteriously, only to be rediscovered a half-century later among the author’s private papers. Published in Spain for the first time in 1983, they appear now at last in a bilingual edition, the English lovingly rendered by the scholar and poet Antonio T. de NicolÃ¡s, and introduced by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson. This is a book of verse for the poet in all of us—it sings of the invisible realities which we carry in our hearts and which carry us through a life filled with symbols, toil and beauty.  Juan RamÃ³n JimÃ©nez, an early twentieth century pioneer in the use of free verse and author of over 70 books has been hailed by The New Republic as “not only the dean of Hispanic poets, but the pioneer and the source of all those who wrote in the Spanish tongue after him.” Antonio T. de NicolÃ¡s is widely known for his translation of the JimÃ©nez classic, Platero and I, which will also be republished through iUniverse.com.

Invisible Reality

Antonio T. de Nicolás

iUniverse

Over one hundred vignettes in Stories of Life and Death create haunting images of the author's favorite subjects: women in love, children coping with tragedy, eccentrics, the emotions of compassion, bitterness, envy and longing.  Meet Mercedita Saro, the shy, perfectly-groomed beggar-child of the local drunk, whom JimÃ©nez loves, protects, and treats with sweets, forbidden by her father. And Max, "the blue child," a West Indian boy traveling on the same ship as JimÃ©nez to live with relatives in South America, who covered his black face with white powder "to look whiter to my brothers." See a woman in love, "white tender, bray, submissive, delicate." and the tiny ray of sun awakening a baby, which "has opened in his eyes a magic and flowery garden that holds him bewitched." Feel sadness at the death of a village girl, empathy for the mother of a sailor lost at sea, and compassion for an angry man who gets drunk for the first time.  The author creates an impressionistic landscape with subtle nuances of light and shadow, leaving tantalizing ambiguities to be resolved only in the eye of the beholder.  “As might be assumed from the title bestowed on this work, JimÃ©nez's prose and poetical observations of the world around him, previously encountered in Platero and I, take on a somewhat darker more transcendent hue in this further collection. Gone is the unifying theme of itinerant man and donkey, and the physical boundaries of time and space. Here JimÃ©nez allows his poetic vision to sweep far and wide, distilling and concentrating his art into thumbnail sketches of such disparate characters among many are a beggar-girl, a grape-harvester, an elderly canary and even the moon itself. Prefaced by a scholarly introduction from the translator, this is a fine and sensitive translation which captures gloriously the sheer lyrical beauty of JimÃ©nez's writing.” —British Bulletin of Publications

Stories of Life and Death

Contemporary

: One of the great classics of modern Spanish literature. Sheer descriptive magic. Time An exquisite bookrich, shimmering, truly incomparable. The New Yorker This enchanting dialogue, or is it a monologue, between a man and his burro has been translated with great skill and sympathy. Winthrop Sargeant In this translated Spanish classic, Juan Ramón Jiménez tells his burro Platero about their native Andalusian village of Moguer. Their dialogue creates an evanescent portrait of provincial Spainits streets, homes, animals, children, and eccentrics. With the pure-hearted, silent burro sometimes a witness, sometimes a participant, the routines of daily life take on a certain poignancy. Jiménez anxiously searches for and removes the long green thorn from Plateros hoof, and the donkey tenderly nuzzles him. On their way home one evening, Platero brays to his girlfriend burro in a field and trots hesitatingly, unwillingly past. Together Platero and his master make friends with the parrot, belonging to a local French doctor, whose sole and frequent pronouncement is Ce nest rien. Both prolific and profound, Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) wrote over seventy books, winning the 1956 Nobel Prize in literature. He has been hailed by The New Republic as not only the dean of Hispanic poets, but a pioneer and the source of all those who wrote in the Spanish tongue after him. The translator, poet and scholar, Antonio de Nicolás, received his education in Spain, India and the United States. A prolific writer, he has contributed to learned journals, magazines and book reviews and has published a number of books.

Platero and I

In this 1970 hardcover book, exquisitely illustrated by Arvis Stewart, the reader finds poems in Spanish and in English translation of three of Spain's greatest poets: Frederico Lorca, Antonio Machado, and Juan Ramon Jimenez, each one having shaped out of the harsh and beautiful landscape of Spain his vision, his passionate subjects, his poetic style. As if speaking to one another, the three poets convey their love of the sensuous, their fascination with the intermingling worlds of dream and reality, their probing of the mystery of death--and their celebration of life in poems that mirror the progressions of nature's seasons, from spring to winter, and humankind's seasons as they pass from childhood to old age.

Still Waters of the Air: Poems by Three Modern Spanish Poets (English and Spanish Edition)

Antonio Machado

Frederico García Lorca

The Dial Press

Esta nueva edicion de la Isla de la simpatia, nombre que le dio el poeta Juan Ramon Jimenez a la isla de Puerto Rico donde también muere en el 1958, es cuidada por La Editorial, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Este libro es un legado al pais que fue su ultima morada.

Isla de la simpatia (Spanish Edition)

La Editorial, Universidad de Puerto Rico

Literary

Paragon_House

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

Light And Shadows: Selected Poems and Prose of Juan Ramon Jimenez

White Pine Press

Univesity of Texas Press

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Jardines Lejanos: Jardines Galantes, Jardines Místicos, Jardines Dolientes (Classic Reprint)

Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez

Invisible Reality

Stories of Life and Death

Platero and I

Still Waters of the Air: Poems by Three Modern Spanish Poets (English and Spanish Edition)

Isla de la simpatia (Spanish Edition)

Platero and I

Light And Shadows: Selected Poems and Prose of Juan Ramon Jimenez

Platero and I