Background
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was born on December 23/24, 1881, in Moguer, near Huelva, Andalucia, to Victor Jiménez and Purificación Mantecón y Lopez Parejo.
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This is a very valuable book! Dozens of poems are here that have never been translated into English before, and I think Berg and Maloney have done beautifully transferring Juan Ramon's enthusiastic calm from Spanish to English. Terrific.Robert Bly As he observes metaphysical somersaults of sea and land, Juan Ramón is the master of replete simplicity. 'A steel sea' pops up on a 'hard flat field/of exhausted mines/in a devastation of ruin.' Or, like Emily Dickinsons 'hope falls down a hill,' Jiménez has, 'Hope, a seagull,/ alights here and there.' The utter nakedness of his verse touched virtually all modern Spanish poetry, directly engendering, for example, Rafael Albertis masterful sea book, Sailor on Land, and 'I walk the streets of the sea.' In The Poet and the Sea, a delicious book perfectly rendered by Mary Berg and Dennis Maloney, Juan Ramón has made essential pacts of intimacy with the great waters of the world. The seas grow in trickery and gravity in endless dramas as two figures emerge: a blind yet live sea and a poet who sees through the sea. The sea is a changing mirror of the poet who has imposed his vision on the whims of his companion sea.Willis Barnstone This bilingual collection traces Juan Ramon Jimenezs relationship with the sea, a major theme in his work, from his seminal book Diary of a Poet Recently Married alongside other poems from his body of work. Seas I feel my boat has struck something large there, in the depths of the sea! And then nothing happens! Nothing Silence Waves Nothing happens? Or has everything happened And are we now, calm, in someplace new? Juan Ramon Jimenez (18811958) was a member of the Generation of 1898, which ushered in a renaissance in Spanish poetry. In 1956 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translators Marg Berg and Dennis Maloney have previously collaborated on Antonio Machados book The Landscape of Castile.
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(Written while in exile in the United States, Time and ...)
Written while in exile in the United States, Time and Space were originally intended to appear together in a single volume. Not until 1986, however, did they appear so in Spanish and not until 1988 were they published together in English. By presenting them together, Jiménez had wanted them to convey the same continuity of emotion, the same philosophical intensity, that he had experienced while writing them. All My Life, he wrote in his introduction, I have toyed with the idea of writing a continuous poem...with no concrete theme, sustained only by its own surprise, its rhythm, its discoveries, its light, its successive joys; that is, its intrinsic elements, its essence. That continuous poem is Time and Space the last book Jiménez wrote. Presented here in a bilingual edition, Time and Space will take readers of both English and Spanish on the longest and most sustained ride on the crest of poetry they will ever enjoy. The greatest poem in this Century... Octavio Paz Antonio T. de Nicolás, translator and editor of Time and Space is also widely known for his highly acclaimed translation of the Juan Ramón Jiménez classic, Platero and I, as well as many other works in Spanish. His first book of poetry, Remembering the God to Come, is also being published by iUniverse.com.
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( Few have written more memorably about the work of poetr...)
Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramón Jiménez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jiménez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elementsthe wellsprings of any kind of creationare instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret. A treasure for poets and writers, The Complete Perfectionist includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer and shows perfection as a process of becoming rather than an end product. In these insightful pages, a poet haunted by perfection reveals his methods of writing and revision, and measures the social and ethical dimensions of el trabajo gustoso, or pleasurable work. This revised and expanded edition includes many aphorisms recently published in Spanish and not previously included.
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(Losada. Buenos Aires. 1964. 19 cm. 122 p. Encuadernación ...)
Losada. Buenos Aires. 1964. 19 cm. 122 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Colección 'Biblioteca Contemporánea', numero coleccion(v. 192). Jiménez, Juan Ramón 1881-1958. Edición y prólogo de Francisco Garfias. Garfias, Francisco. 1921-2010 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. Cubierta deslucida.
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The development of my poetry has been and is the development of an encounter with an idea about God, the great Spanish poet and Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez wrote several years before his death. An early twentieth-century pioneer in the use of free verse, Jiménez has always expressed himself through mystery and profundity. The author presents a fervent landscape of primordial imagery in an attempt to restore mystical poetry to its rightful place in literature and art. For anyone not familiar with the writings of this modern master, these austere and radiant poems, translated by the poet and scholar Antonio de Nicolás and presented alongside the original Spanish, will demonstrate why Jiménez is considered one of the masters of twentieth-century poetry. To what may this writing be compared? Whitman's 'Song of Myself' comes to mind, but it is not with any intention of taking away from Whitman's achievement that I declare a preference for the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez ... Louis Simpson, from the Introduction
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Esta antologia recoge diversas epocas de la poesia de Juan Ramon Jimenez. Creador de una poesia tan tradicional como nueva, con contagios del modernismo pero independiente de el, que llega en su ultima etapa a la "deshumanizacion," son, sin duda los motivos de que esta poesia haya llegado no solo "a la inmensa minoria" sino a un publico tan vasto como pueda tenerlo cualquiera de los llamados poetas populares. Su voz de "humilde ruisenor del paisaje" es a la vez vieja y nueva, eterna.
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( This lyric portrait of lifeand the little donkey, Plat...)
This lyric portrait of lifeand the little donkey, Plateroin a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Esta nueva edicion de la Isla de la simpatia, nombre que le dio el poeta Juan Ramon Jimenez a la isla de Puerto Rico donde también muere en el 1958, es cuidada por La Editorial, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Este libro es un legado al pais que fue su ultima morada.
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Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was born on December 23/24, 1881, in Moguer, near Huelva, Andalucia, to Victor Jiménez and Purificación Mantecón y Lopez Parejo.
After early training in a Jesuit school, Juan Ramón Jiménez was sent to study law in Seville. He chose, however, to study literature, especially romantic poets.
In 1900 Jiménez went to Madrid, carrying an ample collection of his early poems, finally published under the delicate titles Ninfeas and Almas de violeta. At this time he suffered a mental breakdown, spending months in clinics in France and in Madrid. In spite of his condition, Jiménez helped to found and direct the literary journal Helios and continued to write poetry. His expressive titles indicate accurately the type of poetry he was writing: Arias tristes (1903), Jardines lejanos (1905), Pastorales (1905).
In 1905 Jiménez returned to Moguer and spent 6 tranquil years writing the same kind of poetry: Elejlas, Baladas de primavera, La soledad sonora. Essentially this poetry is impressionistic, with a stylized backdrop of nature in pastel colors (rose, white, mauve). The tone is generally one of languid melancholy, the form is elegant, aristocratic, and musical. Even at this stage, however, Jiménez's imagery is focused toward sublimation of human emotions. In his early maturity this tendency toward sublimation becomes pronounced, especially in the fine book Sonetos espirituales (1915).
In 1916 Jiménez went to the United States. On this trip the poet composed his important book in the symbolist manner, Diario de un poeta reciencasado, which is an elaborate projection of two basic symbols, the sea and the sky. Back in Madrid, in the following years Jiménez gradually withdrew from participation in the real world to concentrate upon his poetry. He created four major books: Eternidades (1917), Piedra y cielo (1918), Poesça (1923), and Belleza (1923). By this time he was writing a pure poetry of intellectual tone reduced to essential symbol and stripped of all anecdote and verbal music.
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Jiménez (never interested in politics) went again to the United States and began a late career (followed by many other exiles) of teaching and lecturing for brief periods. Although his poetic creation slackened somewhat in the 1930s, in the 1940s he enjoyed a final burst of inspiration. As a result of a boat trip to Argentina, Jiménez, again moved by the symbol of the sea, wrote what he considered his final major work, Dios deseado y deseante (1949). This book projects the resolution of themes Jiménez had been pursuing all his career. His first period was esthetic, his second intellectual; in his final period, a religious one, he expressed his neomystical union with his God both "desired and desiring. " In all these periods the poet is seeking a perfection of his soul, what he calls a "unique, just and universal consciousness of beauty. "
Jiménez also wrote significant prose in his long career. In 1917 he published Platero y yo (Platero and I), a poetic, melancholy, Franciscan book that has become a classic, especially for children. He also wrote Españoles de tres mundos, short and sometimes biting portraits of his contemporaries.
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 29, 1958.
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Quotations:
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Back of my forehead I feel tonight. A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!
In 1916 Juan Ramón Jiménez married Zenobia Camprubí in the United States. They didn't have children.