A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (English and Spanish Edition)
After LoveAt The Bottom Of The Well: The Buried ManBent TimeBetween Two Nighttimes, LightningBloodThe Body And The SoulThe Boy And The ManThe BullCity Of ParadiseThe ClassClose To DeathClosedCome Always, ComeThe CometDoesn't KnowThe DreamThe EaglesThe Ear - The WordThe ExplosionFinal Look: Death And RecognitionGuitar Or MoonThe HandsHer Hand Given OverHuman MatterI Am DestinyIf Someone Could Have Told MeThe Immortals: 1. RainThe Immortals: 2. SunThe Immortals: 3. WordThe Immortals: 4. EarthThe Immortals: 5. FireThe Immortals: 6. AirThe Immortals: 7. SeaIn The SquareIt's RainingThe Jungle And The SeaLifeLightlessThe LimitLove PoemMan Doesn't ExistThe Man On His Death Bed: 1. WordsThe Man On His Death Bed: 2. The SilenceMother, MotherMy Grandfather's DeathMy VoiceThe Old And The YoungThe Old Man And The SunThe Old Man Is Like MosesOn The Death Of Miguel HernandezOn The Way To SchoolThe PoetSea And NightSea And SunriseSong To A Dead GirlSound Of The WarTo My DogTragic DestinyThe TreeUnder The GroundThe UsualThe Victorious SunVision Of Youth From Other YearsThe VisitorThe WaltzWe Feed On ShadowWhat Happens To All FleshWhat Is ForgottenWho I Write ForWholeness Within HerWith All Due RespectThe Years--Table of Poems fromPoem Finder®This bilingual collection of 68 poems and two prose pieces surveys fifty years of the 1977 Nobel Prize winning poet's work. In addition, the book includes Lewis Hyde's introduction and a descriptive bibliography containing Aleixandre's own comments on each of his books, taken from their prefaces. Divided into five sections to represent different phases of the poet's writing, arranged chronologically, the poems reflect quite a range to the talent, from the early prose poems to the recent dramatic poems, from the hermetic and surrealistic to the perhaps most occasional, "On the Death of Miguel Hernandez," ("Don't Touch him. None of you could. He knew,/ only he knew,") to love poems like "It's Raining": "This evening it's raining, and my picture of you is raining. The day falls open in memory. You walked in. / I can't hear. Memory gives me nothing but your picture. / There only your kiss or the rain is falling." The translations, by Hyde along with 14 other translators, at their best manage to capture the sharp images and intellect of this amazing, renowned poet, who, at age 88, continues to write. This edition, the first paperback printing of the 1979 Harper and Row cloth edition (now out of print) is the only book of Aleixandre's poetry available in English currently. Highly recommended for all collections. --FromIndependent Publisher--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.