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Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance
Rafael Alberti
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Description for Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance
Paperback. Rafael Alberti's Returnings burn with erotic intensity fueled by the melancholy of exile, the longing of nostalgia and the consolation of memory. Series: The Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 271.
Winner of the 2016 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation In Returnings, we are treated to an essay on the imaginative possibilities of a great poet, long exiled from his native land, turning memory into verse, recovering from the past everything that counts: love and friendship and the landscapes that shaped him. Through alleyways and storied ruins, colors and autumn and war, Alberti discovers poetry at every turn. --Christopher Merrill, prize judge The musical language that drives these urgent poems is echoed exquisitely in Carolyn Tipton's translations. --Stephen Kessler Rafael Alberti was one of the ... Read more
Winner of the 2016 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation In Returnings, we are treated to an essay on the imaginative possibilities of a great poet, long exiled from his native land, turning memory into verse, recovering from the past everything that counts: love and friendship and the landscapes that shaped him. Through alleyways and storied ruins, colors and autumn and war, Alberti discovers poetry at every turn. --Christopher Merrill, prize judge The musical language that drives these urgent poems is echoed exquisitely in Carolyn Tipton's translations. --Stephen Kessler Rafael Alberti was one of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
White Pine Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Buffalo, United States
ISBN
9781935210917
SKU
V9781935210917
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Ref
99-15
About Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti: Rafael Alberti was one of the greatest poets of 20th century Spain. At the Spanish Civil War, Alberti, along with the rest of his Generation who had not been caught or killed, fled. His exile from Spain was to last almost 40 years. He died in 1999. Carolyn Tipton: Carolyn L. Tipton is ... Read more
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