Materia del amor
Subtitle: [selección poética]
By: Manuel Rueda ; selección y prólogo de José Alcántara Almánzar
Contributors: Alcántara Almánzar, José, 1946-
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Biblioteca dominicana básica -- 8; Poesía; Biblioteca dominicana básica -- 8.; Poesía (Editora Nacional (Dominican Republic))
Publisher: Ministerio de Cultura de la República Dominicana, Editora Nacional
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Santo Domingo, República Dominicana
Language: spa
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789945503180
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Poems
Notes: Comilation of poetry by Manuel Rueda (1921-1999), Dominican poet, pianist and playwright. He was a member of the literary group "La Poesia Sorprendida" and later founded Pluralismo. He was the director of the "Hoy" newspaper's cultural supplement "Isla Abierta", as well as the director of the Dominican National Music Conservatory for 20 years. He received numerous literary prizes through his career including the National Literature Prize in 1994, the Condecoracion al Merito de Duarte, Sanchez y Mella (the Duarte, Sanchez and Mella Decoration of Merit) in the degrees of "Caballero" (1977) and of "Comendador" (1997). In 1995 he was awarded the Premio Tirso de Molina in Madrid for his play "Retablo de Pasión y Muerte de Juana La Loca".

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxviii) and chronological list of author's poetic works (pages xxv-xxvii).
Table of contents: title: Semblanza de un poeta esencial  -- José Alcántara Almánzar; title: De Las noches (1949) --; title: De La criatura terrestre (1963) --; title: De Por los mares de la dama (1976) --; title: De Las edades del viento (1979) --; title: De Congregación del cuerpo único (1989) -- -- Apéndice :; title: Polibio y el viento.