For José Ángel Valente, the word was foremost. He was of a generation that came of age under the Franco dictatorship. But unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not often address political or social issues directly in his poems. His influence as a poetic force proved to be much deeper. From the outset Valente’s work was bold yet disciplined, immediate yet lyrical, combining poetic precision with a knack for capturing vital moments and a keen ear for musicality. His chief concern was poetry that explored and transcended itself: poetry as knowledge. A poet of unfailing integrity, he never wavered in his pursuit of the truth of the word. Exploring questions of love, loss, and the spirit, he stripped twentieth-century Spanish poetry of its rhetorical excesses, producing contemplative, introspective, and at times mystical verses, rejecting the facile and embracing silence. In his later years, he turned to stirring, highly distilled prose poems in such works as The Singer Does Not Awaken and Landscape with Yellow Birds. Then the clear melody of his early verse gave way to intensely resonant passages that folded in upon each other and opened startling vistas in unexpected directions. This is the first major selection of Valente’s work to appear in English.

Landscape with Yellow Birds

Self-Help

Valente, José Ángel

Relationships

Archipelago

El lector atento de la poesía de Valente podría ir desvelando en la evolución de su obra una teoría de la escritura poética en la que el lenguaje va apareciendo, siempre con mayor evidencia, no ya como instrumento, sino como el lugar en que se manifiesta la divinidad. Al dios del lugar, su último libro de poemas, sea la cul

Al Dios del lugar (Marginales) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Tusquets Editores S.A.

La palabras de la tribu, que Siglo XXI Editores publicó en 1971, es uno de esos libros que merecen emerger a una nueva vida porque forma parte de las escasas obras que renacen siempre renovadas. José Angel Valente creyó sin embargo oportuno añadirle una discreta «Segunda nota preliminar» en 1993 que justifica en cierto modo

Las palabras de la tribu (Spanish Edition)

En realidad este libro en prosa poética, el más reciente de José Angel Valente, podría clasificarse de elegíaco. La experiencia extrema de, paradójicamente, llenar de vacío, de ausencia, un espacio escrito ha conducido a Valente, con toda probabilidad, a la necesidad de someter el lenguaje a una violencia también extrema qu

No amanece el cantor (Marginales) (Spanish Edition)

El fin de la edad de plata seguido de Nueve enunciaciones (Spanish Edition)

Fulgor, El (Spanish Edition)

Galaxia Gutenberg

Fragmentos de un libro futuro (Spanish Edition)

Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L.

Diario anónimo (1959-2000)

Palabra y materia

Editorial Círculo de Bellas Artes

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