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A Bird of Paper
English, Spanish (translation)
- GenresPoetryNobel Prize
75 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1982
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About the author
Vicente Aleixandre
117 books72 followersSpanish poet Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize of 1977 for literature.
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo received it at 79 years of age. At the time, people barely knew him with just two available small editions in English translation. Two years later, in 1979, Harper and Row brought out bilingual edition of Lewis Hyde of selected poems of Aleixandre, A Longing for the Light . When people left the book to go out print, Copper Canyon published a paperback edition in 1985. Express Books noted in an article on Aleixandre, “A Longing for the Light remains the only readable collection of Aleixandre’s poetry available.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente...
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo received it at 79 years of age. At the time, people barely knew him with just two available small editions in English translation. Two years later, in 1979, Harper and Row brought out bilingual edition of Lewis Hyde of selected poems of Aleixandre, A Longing for the Light . When people left the book to go out print, Copper Canyon published a paperback edition in 1985. Express Books noted in an article on Aleixandre, “A Longing for the Light remains the only readable collection of Aleixandre’s poetry available.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente...
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July 17, 2020
Who said perhaps that the sea moans
sadly, lip of love, toward the beaches?
Let it spread out the enveloped in light.
Glory, glory on high, and on the sea, gold!
Ah, sovereign light that envelopes, sings
the imperishable age of the sensual sea!
There, reverberating
timeless, the sea exists.
Heart of a deathless god, throbbing!
sadly, lip of love, toward the beaches?
Let it spread out the enveloped in light.
Glory, glory on high, and on the sea, gold!
Ah, sovereign light that envelopes, sings
the imperishable age of the sensual sea!
There, reverberating
timeless, the sea exists.
Heart of a deathless god, throbbing!
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November 20, 2022"Although silenced, my lips are still in yours,
I breathe you. O dream in life, or there is life.
The suspect life is in the kiss
alive by itself. Without us, it shines.
We are its shadows. Because it is our body when we are not."
I breathe you. O dream in life, or there is life.
The suspect life is in the kiss
alive by itself. Without us, it shines.
We are its shadows. Because it is our body when we are not."
May 1, 2016
April was National Poetry Month. I thoroughly enjoy reading poetry, a very different art form compared to the novel. Sometimes deeper and richer. Great poetry will allow you to lose yourself, find yourself, and/or discover a new you all within a single piece of a work. Therefore a collection of poetry from one poet must be beyond enriching...transformative.
A Bird of Paper by Aleixandre was 'just' good...enjoyable but not transformative. My favorites: Adolescence, The Poet, You Almost Loved Me.
A Bird of Paper by Aleixandre was 'just' good...enjoyable but not transformative. My favorites: Adolescence, The Poet, You Almost Loved Me.
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