Pedro Salinas

Poema

La voce a te dovuta

When Pedro Salinas’s 1933 collection of love poems, La voz a ti debida, was introduced to American audiences in Willis Barnstone’s 1975 English translation, it was widely regarded as the greatest sequence of love poems written by a man or a woman, in any language, in the twentieth century. Now, seventy-five years after its publication, the reputation of the poems and its multifaceted writer remains untarnished. A portrait of their era, the poems, from a writer in exile from his native civil war–torn Spain, now reemerge in our time. In this new, facing-page bilingual edition, Barnstone has added thirty-six poems written in the form of letters from Salinas to his great love, Katherine Whitmore. Discovered years later, these poems were written during and after the composition of La voz and, though disguised as prose, have all the rhythms and sounds of lineated lyric poetry. Taken together, the poems and letters are a history, a dramatic monologue, and a crushing and inevitable ending to the story of a man consumed by his love and his art. Bolstered by an elegant foreword by Salinas’s contemporary, the poet Jorge Guillén, and a masterly afterword by the Salinas scholar, Enric Bou, that considers the poet and his legacy for twenty-first century world poetry, Love Poems by Pedro Salinas will be cause for celebration throughout the world of verse and beyond.

My Voice Because of You and Letter Poems to Katherine

Love Poems by Pedro Salinas

La felicidad inminente

(Poesias Completas) (El Libro De Bolsillo)

La Voz a Ti Debida

Marcel Proust

A la sombra de las muchachas en flor

En busca del tiempo perdido, 2

Joaquín González Muela

La voz a ti debida. Razón de amor .

La voce a te dovuta. Testo spagnolo a fronte

Antología poética

Essay over verschillende aspecten van het schrijven en ontvangen van brieven.

Defensa de la Carta Misiva Y de la Correspondencia Epistolar

David Lee Garrison

As he develops these images and themes, Salinas often includes self-conscious reflections on the nature of poetic expression, the battle against the blank page, the rage for order."--BOOK JACKET.

Poems

Certain Chance

Poema del mío Cid

Pedro Salinas (1892-1951), one of the greatest modern poets of any country, is unquestionably the preeminent love poet of twentieth-century Spain. Memory in My Hands includes an ample selection of his three books of love poetry - The Voice I Owe to You [La voz a ti debida], A Reason for Love [Razón de amor], and Long Lament [Largo lamento] in English translation alongside the Spanish original. This trilogy of love poems, the last (posthumous) of which has never been translated before, are of a nature to win a large and devoted audience: they are at once passionate, eloquent, and whimsical. The introduction to Memory in My Hands sets the poems in context, providing the story of the love affair that inspired the poems. It also raises the question of the nature of autobiographical poetry and considers this collection in the tradition of poetic sequences such as Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella.

The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas

Memory in My Hands

Six lectures delivered in 1937 at Johns Hopkins University at the invitation of the Turnbull Poetry Lecture Foundation.

Reality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry

This is the first English translation of Vispera del gozo -- a collection of short stories by Pedro Salinas (1891-1951), a writer best known for his poetry and involvement in the Spanish vanguard aesthetic movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

A Bilingual Edition of Víspera Del Gozo

Pedro Salinas

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