While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life's journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity; the poet doesn't set out to fantasize, or to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments in his life. But is it truly ours, this life we live?"

Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was one of the leading poets of Spain's Generation of 1927, which included Federico Garc a Lorca, Rafael Alberti and Jorge Guill n.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 05/01/2004
ISBN: 9780872864313
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.00w x 0.51d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Lambda Book Report 04/01/2005 pg. 19