Written in Water
The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda
by Luis Cernuda
"Written in Water combines Cernuda's two volumes of prose poems, Ocnos and Variaciones sobre tema mexicano (Variations on a Mexican Theme), into a single book as the author intended but never lived to see. Cernuda explores various scenes and moments and ideas from different periods of his life, beginning with childhood in Seville and proceeding through his exile to his first encounter with Mexico, where he found a comforting resemblance to his lost Andalucia. This book amounts to a kind of autobiography, the chronicle of a geographic and spiritual journey in the form of evocations, vignettes, and reflections."--BOOK JACKET.
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Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda
July 30, 2004, City Lights Books
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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 García Lorca, Rafael Alberti and Jorge Guillén.
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