I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems (Paperback)

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Deeply admired by poets far more familiar to us, from Garcia Lorca to William Carlos Williams, the poems of Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), beam with a gentleness of heart. After fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, he was imprisoned in Franco's jails, where he continued to write until his death from untreated TB in 1942: he was thirty-one. Miguel Hernandez is one of the most revered poets in the Spanish-speaking world.

Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books; Bilingual Spanish-English Ed edition (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852243325
• ISBN-13: 978-1852243326
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,815,491 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential poetry in an accomplished translation, May 28, 1998

By A Customer

Anyone who's read and loved the work of great Spanish poets such as Lorca and Machado will love the work of Miguel Hernandez, a self-educated goatherd who developed a singularly strong and beautiful poetic language of his own. This volume is an excellent selection of his work, and is translated with such evident care that the English sings just as the Spanish does. See especially Hernandez' heartbreakingly tender lullabies to his wife and son, written just before his death in prison. A beautiful book.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book of poetry, May 11, 1998

By A Customer

A marvel. Simple as that. For the general reader, as well as those already familiar with the great tradition of Spanish verse which includes Lorca, Neruda, Machado...