Miguel Hernandez

Miguel HernandezBy: Miguel Hernndez Series: NYRB Poets Miguel Hernndez is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramn Jimnez, and Federico Garca Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernndezs brief writing life, and includes his most celebrated poems, from the early lyrics written in traditional forms, such as the moving elegy Hernndez wrote to his friend and mentor Ramon Sij (one of the most famous elegies ever

By: Miguel Hernández   | Series: NYRB Poets 

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Miguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernández’s brief writing life, and includes his most celebrated poems, from the early lyrics written in traditional forms, such as the moving elegy Hernández wrote to his friend and mentor Ramon Sijé (one of the most famous elegies ever written in the Spanish language), to the spiritual eroticism of his love poems, and the heart-wrenching, luminous lines written in the trenches of war. Also included in this edition are tributes to Hernández by Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda (interviewed by Robert Bly), Rafael Alberti, and Vicente Aleixandre. Pastoral nature, love, and war are recurring themes in Hernández’s poetry, his words a dazzling reminder that force can never defeat spirit, that courage is its own reward.

This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.