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I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems
Miguel Hernandez
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Description for I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems
Paperback. Imprisoned in Franco's jails, Miguel Hernandez died from untreated TB in 1942 at the age of 31. His passionate and bittersweet work is a dazzling reminder that force can never defeat spirit. Bilingual edition with testaments by Lorca, Neruda and other leading poets, and a comprehensive illustrated introduction by Willis Barnstone. Translator(s): Share, Don. Num Pages: 160 pages, 2 photographs and 1 drawing. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 214 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
Deeply admired by poets far more familiar to us, from Lorca to William Carlos Williams, the poems of Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), written in the midst of the savage 20th century, beam with a gentleness of heart. Hernandez was a self-educated goatherd from the tiny Spanish town of Orihuela who tried hard to be accepted among his older contemporaries. Lorca wrote to the young poet in 1933, telling him to stop struggling to get along in a 'circle of literary pigs'. After fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, Hernandez was imprisoned in several of Franco's jails, where ... Read more
Deeply admired by poets far more familiar to us, from Lorca to William Carlos Williams, the poems of Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), written in the midst of the savage 20th century, beam with a gentleness of heart. Hernandez was a self-educated goatherd from the tiny Spanish town of Orihuela who tried hard to be accepted among his older contemporaries. Lorca wrote to the young poet in 1933, telling him to stop struggling to get along in a 'circle of literary pigs'. After fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, Hernandez was imprisoned in several of Franco's jails, where ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852243326
SKU
V9781852243326
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Reviews for I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems
'One is rarely excited by translation, but in Don Share's case there is a sense of shared elation between reader and translator that confirms the delight of exact sensation when the poem feels transmitted by that cautious and subtle alchemy that is the translator's skill. I have felt this with Don Share's versions of Miguel Hernandez: but this is also ... Read more