Written In Water: The Collected Prose Poems
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Written In Water: The Collected Prose Poems
By (Author) Luis Cernuda
Translated by Stephen Kessler
City Lights Books
City Lights Books
1st May 2005
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
861.62
Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2004
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 124mm, Height 200mm, Spine 10mm
184g
Description
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.
Reviews
"Stephen Kessler's brilliant translation . . . has to be one of the best books of Spanish poetry to appear in English this year." - "The Bloomsbury Review
Author Bio
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.
