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After Love
At The Bottom Of The Well: The Buried Man
Bent Time
Between Two Nighttimes, Lightning
Blood
The Body And The Soul
The Boy And The Man
The Bull
City Of Paradise
The Class
Close To Death
Closed
Come Always, Come
The Comet
Doesn't Know
The Dream
The Eagles
The Ear - The Word
The Explosion
Final Look: Death And Recognition
Guitar Or Moon
The Hands
Her Hand Given Over
Human Matter
I Am Destiny
If Someone Could Have Told Me
The Immortals: 1. Rain
The Immortals: 2. Sun
The Immortals: 3. Word
The Immortals: 4. Earth
The Immortals: 5. Fire
The Immortals: 6. Air
The Immortals: 7. Sea
In The Square
It's Raining
The Jungle And The Sea
Life
Lightless
The Limit
Love Poem
Man Doesn't Exist
The Man On His Death Bed: 1. Words
The Man On His Death Bed: 2. The Silence
Mother, Mother
My Grandfather's Death
My Voice
The Old And The Young
The Old Man And The Sun
The Old Man Is Like Moses
On The Death Of Miguel Hernandez
On The Way To School
The Poet
Sea And Night
Sea And Sunrise
Song To A Dead Girl
Sound Of The War
To My Dog
Tragic Destiny
The Tree
Under The Ground
The Usual
The Victorious Sun
Vision Of Youth From Other Years
The Visitor
The Waltz
We Feed On Shadow
What Happens To All Flesh
What Is Forgotten
Who I Write For
Wholeness Within Her
With All Due Respect
The Years
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
This bilingual collection of 68 poems and two prose pieces surveys fifty years of the 1977 Nobel Prize winning poet's work. In addition, the book includes Lewis Hyde's introduction and a descriptive bibliography containing Aleixandre's own comments on each of his books, taken from their prefaces. Divided into five sections to represent different phases of the poet's writing, arranged chronologically, the poems reflect quite a range to the talent, from the early prose poems to the recent dramatic poems, from the hermetic and surrealistic to the perhaps most occasional, "On the Death of Miguel Hernandez," ("Don't Touch him. None of you could. He knew,/ only he knew,") to love poems like "It's Raining": "This evening it's raining, and my picture of you is raining. The day falls open in memory. You walked in. / I can't hear. Memory gives me nothing but your picture. / There only your kiss or the rain is falling." The translations, by Hyde along with 14 other translators, at their best manage to capture the sharp images and intellect of this amazing, renowned poet, who, at age 88, continues to write. This edition, the first paperback printing of the 1979 Harper and Row cloth edition (now out of print) is the only book of Aleixandre's poetry available in English currently. Highly recommended for all collections. -- From Independent Publisher --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
At The Bottom Of The Well: The Buried Man
Bent Time
Between Two Nighttimes, Lightning
Blood
The Body And The Soul
The Boy And The Man
The Bull
City Of Paradise
The Class
Close To Death
Closed
Come Always, Come
The Comet
Doesn't Know
The Dream
The Eagles
The Ear - The Word
The Explosion
Final Look: Death And Recognition
Guitar Or Moon
The Hands
Her Hand Given Over
Human Matter
I Am Destiny
If Someone Could Have Told Me
The Immortals: 1. Rain
The Immortals: 2. Sun
The Immortals: 3. Word
The Immortals: 4. Earth
The Immortals: 5. Fire
The Immortals: 6. Air
The Immortals: 7. Sea
In The Square
It's Raining
The Jungle And The Sea
Life
Lightless
The Limit
Love Poem
Man Doesn't Exist
The Man On His Death Bed: 1. Words
The Man On His Death Bed: 2. The Silence
Mother, Mother
My Grandfather's Death
My Voice
The Old And The Young
The Old Man And The Sun
The Old Man Is Like Moses
On The Death Of Miguel Hernandez
On The Way To School
The Poet
Sea And Night
Sea And Sunrise
Song To A Dead Girl
Sound Of The War
To My Dog
Tragic Destiny
The Tree
Under The Ground
The Usual
The Victorious Sun
Vision Of Youth From Other Years
The Visitor
The Waltz
We Feed On Shadow
What Happens To All Flesh
What Is Forgotten
Who I Write For
Wholeness Within Her
With All Due Respect
The Years
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
This bilingual collection of 68 poems and two prose pieces surveys fifty years of the 1977 Nobel Prize winning poet's work. In addition, the book includes Lewis Hyde's introduction and a descriptive bibliography containing Aleixandre's own comments on each of his books, taken from their prefaces. Divided into five sections to represent different phases of the poet's writing, arranged chronologically, the poems reflect quite a range to the talent, from the early prose poems to the recent dramatic poems, from the hermetic and surrealistic to the perhaps most occasional, "On the Death of Miguel Hernandez," ("Don't Touch him. None of you could. He knew,/ only he knew,") to love poems like "It's Raining": "This evening it's raining, and my picture of you is raining. The day falls open in memory. You walked in. / I can't hear. Memory gives me nothing but your picture. / There only your kiss or the rain is falling." The translations, by Hyde along with 14 other translators, at their best manage to capture the sharp images and intellect of this amazing, renowned poet, who, at age 88, continues to write. This edition, the first paperback printing of the 1979 Harper and Row cloth edition (now out of print) is the only book of Aleixandre's poetry available in English currently. Highly recommended for all collections. -- From Independent Publisher --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Time stops,
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This review is from: A Longing for the Light (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
No matter where I open this book, time stops. Gentle as an uncle I once knew, his words carry forward, linger on, and I find myself nodding affirmatively in of all places, this world
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In the darker places of loneliness...,
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This review is from: A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (English and Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Vicente Aleixander was part of that great Generation of '27 - famous for such members as Lorca, Cernuda, Alberti and Salinas. He was the least political and this perhaps explains how he survived during the years of the Civil War. Lorca was executed by Franco's troops and the peasant-turned poet, Miguel Hernandez, who fought for the Communists, died in prison in 1942. Many of the Generation of '27 fled the country. Alberti didn't return until well after Franco's death, having lived abroad in Italy and the United States, often a visiting professor. Salinas, too, taught abroad. Aleixandre opted to stay in his native land.
Aleixandre's poetry is darker than his peers. Where Alberti and Salinas celebrate music, beauty, love, and painting (especially Alberti), Aleixandre's is a celebration of loneliness, of isolation. His early poems are quite deep and almost unreadable at times, so fraught with esoteric meaning (like Hernandez's early poems) that it might turn the reader off when first presented with this book. But the further one travels into this great collection, the greater the beauty and more universal the themes of love, loss and sadness. One feels the ocean, the waves, the sand but also a woman's body, the world destroyed but renewed. There is an organic quality to his poetry, it is human but also detached and poignant. I prefer Aleixandre's work to many of his contemporaries. He reminds me to some degree of Georg Trakl in Germany - the darkness, the silence of the world, the pulse of life in nature surrounding humanity. This selection features translations by Lewis Hyde (also editor of the book), Roberty Bly, W.S. Merwin, Willis Barnstone and many others...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Once read or heard, never forgotten,
By "leener" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Longing for the Light (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
"Her hand given over" is the sweetest, saddest, truest poem I've read about a woman from a man's point of view. I'm so glad to know about Aleixandre.
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