
Poems of Consummation
Vicente Aleixandre(Author)
Black Widow Press
Will be published approx. on 16. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-0-9856122-2-1 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1968, when the author was seventy, Poems of Consummation is Vicente Aleixandre’s 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 unknowable—mainly 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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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston, MA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9856122-2-1 (9780985612221)
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By Vicente Aleixandre - Translated by Stephen Kessler