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This atlas illustrates the characteristics of present-day bedforms,
from the shoreline to deep-sea environments, and it also includes
short reviews of the main mechanisms that generate such bedforms.
The atlas is aimed at the research community, in addition to
students, the public at large and companies with interests in the
marine environment. The book is divided into seven sections
composed of a number of short chapters: 1) bedform analysis and the
main physical processes, 2) bedforms in the coastal zone, 3)
bedforms on prodeltas and sorted bedforms, 4) bedforms on the
continental shelf, 5) bedforms and benthos, 6) bedforms in
submarine canyons and 7) slope and deep-sea bedforms. This atlas
offers a comprehensive, though not exhaustive, view of the
diversity of bedforms and associated processes and of the
morphological and temporal scales in the enclosed tideless western
Mediterranean Sea.
Jorge Guillen is one of Spain's most important and productive poets
of the twentieth century; yet though recently honored with
prestigious literary prizes in Spain, Italy, and the United States,
he remains little known in this country. This selection of his
poetry and his commentary on the poems comprise an extraordinary
introduction of the poet to an English-speaking audience. Ranging
over the nearly sixty years of Guillen's poetic career, this
anthology consists of the poet's own selection of forty-one poems
that represent for him the coherence and unity of his life's work.
His commentary on each poem explains its place and significance in
this context. With the original Spanish and the English
translations on facing pages, the anthology proceeds thematically.
The poet asks us to consider the architecture of his work as a
whole, and not necessarily his development as a poet. At Guillen's
invitation, the translators visited him at his home in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where they taped the poet reading and talking about
his poetry for more than five hours. Guillen on Guillen is the
edited transcript of that meeting. Originally published in 1979.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Jorge Guillen is one of Spain's most important and productive poets
of the twentieth century; yet though recently honored with
prestigious literary prizes in Spain, Italy, and the United States,
he remains little known in this country. This selection of his
poetry and his commentary on the poems comprise an extraordinary
introduction of the poet to an English-speaking audience. Ranging
over the nearly sixty years of Guillen's poetic career, this
anthology consists of the poet's own selection of forty-one poems
that represent for him the coherence and unity of his life's work.
His commentary on each poem explains its place and significance in
this context. With the original Spanish and the English
translations on facing pages, the anthology proceeds thematically.
The poet asks us to consider the architecture of his work as a
whole, and not necessarily his development as a poet. At Guillen's
invitation, the translators visited him at his home in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where they taped the poet reading and talking about
his poetry for more than five hours. Guillen on Guillen is the
edited transcript of that meeting. Originally published in 1979.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Jorge Guillen belongs to a brilliant cluster of Spanish poets, a
generation once defined by Salinas, one of its members, as "born
under a lyrical star." Towards the end of his life Guillen's most
famous work "Cantico" - the fruit of some 30 years of labour - was
recognized as a masterpiece and stands alongside the poetical works
of Lorca, Alberti and Cernuda. Most usefully translated as a hymn
or song of praise, "Cantico" is an antidote to today's world of
doubts, fears, conflicts and seductive philosophies of despair. The
attitude to life it holds out to its readers is summed up in the
epitaph on Guillen's tomb in the English cemetery in Malaga: "Aqui
yace un enamorado de la vida" ("Here lies a lover of life").
A classic of the 20th century and one of the most rigorous voices
of the Generation of 1927, Jorge Guillen has not only left us an
exceptional poetic oeuvre, gathered under the title "Aire nuestro,
but also one of the most elegant and incisive, precise and refined
works in prose of his time. Few readers know that he is the author
of a considerable amount of critical work, that he traced
similarities and investigated literature and art in general with
such masterful skill that time has set it as an example. Professor
Francisco Diaz de Castro, with the purpose of bringing together his
texts in prose, has gathered them under six epigraphs which define
the questions that preoccupied Guillen throughout his literary
trajectory in this essential volume.
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