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Written in Water
Luis Cernuda
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Description for Written in Water
Paperback. Prose poems by one of Spain's greatest poets. Translator(s): Kessler, Stephen. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 185.
While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life's journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity; the poet doesn't set out to fantasize, or to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments in his life. But is it truly ours, this life we live?" Luis Cernuda ... Read more
While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life's journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity; the poet doesn't set out to fantasize, or to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments in his life. But is it truly ours, this life we live?" Luis Cernuda ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872864313
SKU
V9780872864313
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About Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was one of the leading poets of Spain's Generation of 1927, which included Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafael Alberti, and Jorge Guillen.
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