Longing: Selected Poems (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Jaime Gil de Biedma (Author), James Nolan (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2001

The poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma, the most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war, is finally, after years of censorship under Generalissimo Franco, reaching a huge audience in Spain. His poems capture the mood of post-civil war Spain and of cosmopolitan Barcelona, where the poet belonged to a celebrated literary movement within the antifascist resistance. His poems are ironic and urban, satiric and unusually Mediterranean. The poet profiled in his poetry—defiant, self-mocking, with a nostalgic tango in the background—has become a legendary figure in the long struggle of the Spanish t emerge from the dictatorship modern and free.
Jaime Gil de Biedma was born in Barcelona in 1929. He studied law, and then worked and lived in Manila for long periods. He died of AIDS in 1990. James Nolan is the author of Why I Live in the Forest and What Moves Is Not the Wind (Weslyan University Press), and the translator of Pablo Neruda’s Stones of the Sky (Copper Canyon).

Editorial Reviews

Review

After The Death Of Jaime Gil De Biedma
Against Jaime Gil De Biedma
All Saints Day
Anniversay Song
Ars Poetica
Arts Of Growing Old
The Bad Year
Barcelona Ja No Es Bona, Or My Solitary Spring Walk
A Body Is A Man's Best Friend
Cafe Idyll
Childhood And Confessions
Days In Pagsanjan
De Vita Beata
During The Invasiobn
Elegy In Memory Of The French Song
From Here To Eternity
From Now On
Great Expectations
He's Come To That Time
Homeless Ghosts
Hymn To Youth
I Shal Never Be Young Again
I Try To Give Shape To My War Experience
If Only For A Moment
In Luna Castle
Nights In The Month Of June
Nostalgie De La Boue
Pandemic And Celste
Paris, Postcard From Heaven
Piazza Del Popolo
The Poem-writing Game
Queen
Ruins Of The Third Reich
Sad October Night, 1959
Tale Of A Poor Young Man
Years Of Triumph
Yesterday Morning, Today
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers (January 1, 2001)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 0872862771
• ISBN-13: 978-0872862777
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Woe to inaccurate translation, July 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Longing: Selected Poems (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Biedma is a genious in that he captures a very real, non-traditional side of Spanish life. The truth in his poems is captivating and somewhat addictive. However, as a bi-lingual speaker, I found Nolan's translation to be inacurate and therefor I was forced to give this book only 3 stars. If it had been a Spanish-only version or had been translated properly I would have given it 5.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine, sensitive, charming, full of life and insight, October 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Longing: Selected Poems (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

This is one of finest pieces of Spanish poetry of the second half of this century. It is cunningly sharp and precise, picturing life with a whole range of different colors and yet I must confess that, as with wines, the book acquires a different and better taste as time goes on. It is, with no doubt, good value for money.