Desolation of the Chimera: Last Poems

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In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity: the poet attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments of his life.Octavio Paz

Written between 1950 and 1962, the poems in this bilingual collection amount to the final poetic testament of one of Spains most important twentieth-century poets.

Luis Cernuda (19021963) was a leading member of Spains legendary Generation of 1927. He left Spain during the civil war in 1938 and never returned.

Stephen Kessler is a poet, translator, essayist, and editor.

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"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 fantacize, or to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal ligh

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Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was a leading member of Spain's legendary Generation of 1927-Lorca, Alberti, Aleixandre, Guillen, Salinas, Bunuel, Dali, et al. He left Spain during the Civil War in 1938 and never returned, teaching first in Great Britain and then in Massachusetts before settling in Mexico in 1952. Stephen Kessler is a poet, translator, essayist and editor whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications across the United States since the late 1960s. He is the author of eight books and chapbooks of original poetry, most recently Burning Daylight (Littoral Press), and more than a dozen books of poetry and fiction in translation.