Background
Aleixandre, Vicente was born on April 26, 1898 in Seville, Spain. Son of Cirilo and Elvira (Merlo) Aleixandre.
( First published in 1968, when the author was seventy, P...)
First published in 1968, when the author was seventy, Poems of Consummation is Vicente Aleixandres intimate, philosophic, densely compressed lyric engagement with old age and the mystery of death. The poems are intense, mostly brief, elemental in their imagery (stone, ocean, wind, fire), and they address, in sometimes gnomic terms, the unknowablemainly the paradoxes of memory: the simultaneous absence and presence of remembered love and the lover no longer living. The voice in these poems anticipates its own posthumousness, and speaks at times as if (and now in fact) from beyond the grave
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( For the Nobel Prize to come to Aleixandre now is fitti...)
For the Nobel Prize to come to Aleixandre now is fitting, not only because of the energy and intensity of his own poetry, but because it comes at this moment in Spanish history.The New York Times A Longing for the Light is the only available bilingual Spanish-English translation of the poetry of Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre. The collection spans the entirety of Aleixandres careerfrom early surrealist work to his complex and fascinating dialogues. It also contains prose interludes, an introduction by editor Lewis Hyde, and a descriptive bibliography. Aleixandre was a member of Spains Generation of 27 and was one of the few writers to remain in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. His passive but staunch political independence kept his writings banned for a decade, but his vivid poems of harmony and commonality would eventually symbolize much of what post-Civil War Spain aspired toward. As Aleixandre wrote in his Nobel lecture: The poet, the truly determinative poet, is always a revealer; he is, essentially, a seer, a prophet. From With All Due Respect: I dont notice our clothes. Do you? Dressed up in three-hundred burlap suits, wrapped in my roughest heaviest get-up, I maintain a dawn-like dignity and brag of how much I know about nakedness. Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. He died in Madrid in 1984.
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(Destruction or Love is the first complete English transla...)
Destruction or Love is the first complete English translation of one of the major works by Spanish Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre. It conveys to English readers some of the syntactic inventiveness and suggestive imagery of the original, which became a landmark of twentieth-century European literature. Illustrated.
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( Begun in 1939, barely four months after the close of th...)
Begun in 1939, barely four months after the close of the Spanish Civil War, these poems by the Nobel Laureate poet Vicente Aleixandre were written during a period of hardship and despair. In spite of his surroundings Aleixandre created the splendor of the shadow of a lost paradise that consisted of memory, nostalgia, yearning and illusion. This is the first full English version. The original Spanish text is included.
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Cuando se cumplen cuarenta años de la concesión del Premio Nobel de Literatura a Vicente Aleixandre, publicamos una nueva edición de su poesía completa, al cuidado de Alejandro Sanz, máximo especialista en su obra. «Cuerpo feliz que fluye entre mis manos, rostro amado donde contemplo el mundo, donde graciosos pájaros se copian fugitivos, volando a la región donde nada se olvida.» Vicente Aleixandre es el poeta del amor, de la contemplación y del conocimiento. Su poesía es irreductible e incomparable y su lectura constituye una experiencia única, llena de iluminaciones. Alejandro Sanz nos ofrece en este libro la disposición definitiva del canon de Aleixandre, que queda completado con material inédito. Tenemos así la oportunidad de calibrar la verdadera dimensión de uno de los poetas más originales e influyentes del siglo XX hispánico, miembro de la generación del 27 y mentor de varias generaciones de poetas. Con este volumen, Aleixandre entre en el siglo XXI. Reseñas: «Fue el primer poeta que me llevó a escribir y por fin siento que voy a leerlo bien, completo. ... Abre una puerta de mi cerebro que otros autores de su generación no han logrado abrir.» Luna Miguel, declaraciones a ABC «En los siete poemas inéditos hay ausencia, vacío, silencio... El hombre, excluido del amor, parece no existir, y no hay más realidad que la mentira. Así veía entonces Vicente Aleixandre el mundo, y así lo cantó, hasta dar forma al gran poemario del desamor. ... Sus versos eran -lo son- un canto exaltado del amor y la juventud plena.» Inés Martín Rodrigo, ABC «Una obra capital, personalísima, de una belleza increíble: poesía del alma, del cuerpo y del paisaje mecida en un oleaje de sentimientos, de plasticidad y de sensaciones.» Antón Castro, Heraldo «... El secreto de la contención anímica, del temple, de la calma de Aleixandre, de ese formalismo que puede interpretarse falsamente como frialdad, y que encierra una pasión incandescente pero en sordina, está en su naturaleza contemplativa.» Iñaki Ezkerra, El Correo Español «Entre las mil quinientas páginas de esta compilación definitiva se encuentra por primera vez la lectura de poemas originales. ... Es, hasta ahora, la recopilación más exhaustiva.» Nieves B. Jiménez, Gaceta En los blogs... «Tener la Poesía Completa de Aleixandre es una auténtica delicia para todos nuestros sentidos. La experiencia de poder leer, y releer toda su obra, con varias partes inéditas, resulta ser un placer inmenso. ... Uno de los mejores poetas de nuestro tiempo. ¡Imprescindible!» Blog de Estrellas5blogspot
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Aleixandre, Vicente was born on April 26, 1898 in Seville, Spain. Son of Cirilo and Elvira (Merlo) Aleixandre.
Licence U. Madrid (Spain), 1919.
He was part of the Generation of "27. Aleixandre"s early poetry, which he wrote mostly in free verse, is highly surrealistic. lieutenant also praises the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea.
Many of Aleixandre"s early poems are filled with sadness.
They reflect his feeling that people have lost the passion and free spirit that he saw in nature. He died in Madrid in 1984.
His early collections of poetry include Passion of the Earth (1935) and Destruction or Love (1933).
( Cuando se cumplen cuarenta años de la concesión del Pre...)
( First published in 1968, when the author was seventy, P...)
( Begun in 1939, barely four months after the close of th...)
( For the Nobel Prize to come to Aleixandre now is fitti...)
(Destruction or Love is the first complete English transla...)
(Book by Aleixandre, Vicente)
Fellow American Association Teachers Spanish and Portuguese (honorary). Member Spanish Academy, Hispanic Society American, Monde Latin Paris Academy, Academy Sciences and Arts Prize ring (The), Málaga Academy, Hispano-American Bogotá Academy.