A splash of sea foam. A sly sparrow. A man dodging the rain. From
such mundane, unexpected moments, Spanish poet Claudio Rodriguez
crafted his 1965 "Alliance and Condemnation," a collection of poems
that temper the joy of existence--the "bounty that turns my flawed
breath into prayer"--with a questioning of empirical reality. In
these pages are poems of love and hate, contrition and forgiveness,
and the joys of sorrow and existence. Many of the poems are
essentially parables that seem to address the immediacy of the
world yet point beyond it toward philosophical and eternal values.
The result is a conjoining of the real and the ideal, a frequent
theme in Spanish literature. Many of these poems bridge the
distance between the Spanish mystics, among them Saint John of the
Cross and Saint Teresa, and the nature poetry of romanticism.
Of all his creations, the radiant poems in" Alliance and
Condemnation "offer the best imaginable introduction to his
extraordinary life and work.
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