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Author: Leopoldo Maria Panero

Leopoldo María Panero (b. 1948, Madrid) is perhaps the greatest living Spanish poet and the most significant one since García Lorca and Aleixandre, yet he has been virtually unknown to the Anglophone literary world. Born to wealth and privilege in Franco's Spain, Panero succumbed to mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction as a young man, and was subjected to electroshock therapy. He voluntarily chose to enter a mental hospital in the Canaary Islands, where he has lived for the last 38 years.

Rosa Enferma / The Sick Rose
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Rosa Enferma / The Sick Rose

Swan Scythe Press

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Arturo Mantecón. "This is the final collection of Spanish poet Leopoldo María Panero (1948-2014): the 'incomplete fish that he carries in his hand', a coda to a body of work that took up wher...

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