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A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre,Used
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For the Nobel Prize to come to Aleixandre now is fitting, not only because of the energy and intensity of his own poetry, but because it comes at this moment in Spanish history.The New York TimesA Longing for the Light is the only available bilingual SpanishEnglish translation of the poetry of Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre. The collection spans the entirety of Aleixandres careerfrom early surrealist work to his complex and fascinating dialogues. It also contains prose interludes, an introduction by editor Lewis Hyde, and a descriptive bibliography.Aleixandre was a member of Spains Generation of 27 and was one of the few writers to remain in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. His passive but staunch political independence kept his writings banned for a decade, but his vivid poems of harmony and commonality would eventually symbolize much of what postCivil War Spain aspired toward. As Aleixandre wrote in his Nobel lecture: The poet, the truly determinative poet, is always a revealer; he is, essentially, a seer, a prophet.From With All Due Respect:I dont notice our clothes. Do you?Dressed up in threehundred burlap suits,wrapped in my roughest heaviest getup,I maintain a dawnlike dignity and brag of how much I know about nakedness.Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. He died in Madrid in 1984.
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