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Written In Water: The Collected Prose Poems
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Written In Water: The Collected Prose Poems
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Luis Cernuda
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Translated by Stephen Kessler
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:128 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 124 |
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| Category/Genre | Poetry |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780872864313
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| Classifications | Dewey:861.62 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
City Lights Books
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| Imprint |
City Lights Books
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| Publication Date |
17 June 2004 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
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.
Author Biography
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.
Reviews"Stephen Kessler's brilliant translation . . . has to be one of the best books of Spanish poetry to appear in English this year." - "The Bloomsbury Review
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