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Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of
Spain's foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the
mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland
clearly and without narcissism: "Just as before, I'm interested/in
water held in;/ but now water in the living/rock of my chest."
"Machado has vowed not to soar too much; he wants to 'go down to
the hells' or stick to the ordinary," Robert Bly writes in his
introduction. He brings to the ordinary--to time, to landscape and
stony earth, to bean fields and cities, to events and
dreams--magical sound that conveys order, penetrating sight and
attention. "The poems written while we are awake...are more
original and more beautiful, and sometimes more wild than those
made from dreams," Machado said.
In the newspapers before and during the Spanish Civil War, he wrote
of political and moral issues, and, in 1939, fled from Franco's
army into the Pyrenees, dying in exile a month later. When in 1966
a bronze bust of Machado was to be unveiled in a town here he had
taught school, thousands of people came in pilgrimage only to find
the Civil Guard with clubs and submachine guns blocking their way.
This selection of Machado's poetry, beautifully translated by Bly,
begins with the Spanish master's first book, Times Alone,
Passageways in the House, and Other Poems (1903), and follows his
work to the poems published after his death: Poems from the Civil
War (written during 1936-1939).
General
Imprint: |
Wesleyan University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 1983 |
First published: |
July 1983 |
Authors: |
Antonio MacHado
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
173 |
Edition: |
1st ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8195-6081-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8195-6081-2 |
Barcode: |
9780819560810 |
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