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Pedro Salinas (1892-1951), one of the greatest modern poets of any
country, is unquestionably the preeminent love poet of
twentieth-century Spain. Memory in My Hands includes an ample
selection of his three books of love poetry - The Voice I Owe to
You [La voz a ti debida], A Reason for Love [Razon de amor], and
Long Lament [Largo lamento] in English translation alongside the
Spanish original. This trilogy of love poems, the last (posthumous)
of which has never been translated before, are of a nature to win a
large and devoted audience: they are at once passionate, eloquent,
and whimsical. The introduction to Memory in My Hands sets the
poems in context, providing the story of the love affair that
inspired the poems. It also raises the question of the nature of
autobiographical poetry and considers this collection in the
tradition of poetic sequences such as Philip Sidney's Astrophil and
Stella.
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