Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler. Written between 1950 and 1962, the poems in this bilingual collection amount to the final poetic testament of one of Spain's most important twentieth-century poets. "In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity: the poet attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments of his life"--Octavio Paz. Stephen Kessler received the 2010 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for this work.

Author Hometown: Seville SPA



About the author: Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was a leading member of Spain's legendary Generation of 1927. He left Spain during the civil war in 1938 and never returned.