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| Written in Water: The Collected Prose Poems by Luis Cernuda & Stephen Kessler |
Synopsis:
While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects
of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces
more explicitly an outline of his life's journey.
Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and
landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility,
there is great objectivity; the poet doesn't set out to fantasize, or
to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate,
with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few
moments in his life. But is it truly ours, this life we live?"
Luis Cernuda (1902—1963) was one of the leading poets of
Spain's Generation of 1927, which included Federico Garcia
Lorca, Rafael Alberti and Jorge Guillen.
While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects
of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces
more explicitly an outline of his life's journey.
Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and
landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility,
there is great objectivity; the poet doesn't set out to fantasize, or
to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate,
with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few
moments in his life. But is it truly ours, this life we live?"
Luis Cernuda (1902—1963) was one of the leading poets of
Spain's Generation of 1927, which included Federico Garcia
Lorca, Rafael Alberti and Jorge Guillen.
This book is on my short list of books that deserve to be famous. It will
never be famous. I will go on trumpeting it anyway.
This book combines both of Cernuda's books of prose poems. Like a
drinking buddy, at first it seemed a little cranky and maudlin, but it has
turned out to be inexhaustible. Somehow Cernuda knows exactly how
emotion feels in the body, how grief sinks and sensuality caresses. It is a
very humble and generous book--as if he has saved all that was good and
vibrant in his life and now he's giving it all away.
never be famous. I will go on trumpeting it anyway.
This book combines both of Cernuda's books of prose poems. Like a
drinking buddy, at first it seemed a little cranky and maudlin, but it has
turned out to be inexhaustible. Somehow Cernuda knows exactly how
emotion feels in the body, how grief sinks and sensuality caresses. It is a
very humble and generous book--as if he has saved all that was good and
vibrant in his life and now he's giving it all away.
