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When Pedro Salinas' 1933 collection of love poems, "La voz a ti
debida", was introduced to American audiences in Willis Barnstone's
1975 English translation, it was widely regarded as the greatest
sequence of love poems written in any language in the twentieth
century. Now, seventy-five years after its original publication,
the reputation of the poems and its multifaceted writer remains
untarnished. A portrait of their era, the poems, from a writer in
exile from his native civil war - torn Spain, reemerge in our time.
In this new facing-page bilingual edition, Barnstone has added
thirty-six poems written in the form of letters from Salinas to his
great love, Katherine Whitmore. Discovered years later, these poems
were written during and after the composition of La voz and, though
disguised as prose, have all the rhythms and sounds of lineated
lyric poetry. Taken together, the poems and letters are a history,
a dramatic monologue, and a crushing and inevitable ending to the
story of a man consumed by his love and his art. Bolstered by an
elegant foreword by Salinas' contemporary, the poet Jorge Guillen,
and a masterly afterword by Salinas scholar Enric Bou that
considers the poet and his legacy for twenty-first-century world
poetry, "Love Poems by Pedro Salinas" will be cause for celebration
throughout the world of verse and beyond.
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