Miguel Hernandez

Hernandez, Miguel

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In the Spanish-speaking world, Miguel Hernandez is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century-equal in distinction to Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. He has never received his just acclaim, however, in the English-speaking world, a victim of the artistic oppression exercised during the period of Francisco Franco's totalitarian regime. Determined to silence the writer Neruda fondly referred to as his wonderful boy, Franco sentenced Hernandez to death, citing as his crime only that he was poet and soldier to the mother country. Despite the fact that complete and accurate versions of his work in Spanish were difficult to obtain for nearly fifty years, Hernandez went on to achieve legendary status. Now, for the first time, Ted Genoways makes Hernandez's extraordinary oeuvre available in an authoritative bilingual edition. Featuring some of the most tender and vigorous poetry on war, death, and social injustice written in the past century, nearly half of the poems in this volume appear in English for the first time, making it the most comprehensive bilingual collection of Hernandez's work available. Arranged chronologically, The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez presents Hernandez's remarkable emotional range as well as his stylistic evolution from the Romantic shepherd poet to poet of the prison cell. Thorough annotations and introductory essays illuminate the biographical basis for many of Hernandez's poems, while a foreword by Robert Bly and a eulogistic ending piece by Octavio Paz provide a striking frame for the work of this essential poet.
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Hernandez, Miguel
Titel
Miguel Hernandez
Uitgever
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Jaar
2013
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
128
Gewicht
109 gr
EAN
9781590176290
Afmetingen
178 x 114 x 15 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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