Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0819550876 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 173 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | Spanish |
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His poetry has the still luminosity of a life lived in provincial backwaters in solitude and silence”—New York Times Book Review. “In Machado there are no gypsies, no bulls, no castanets
In the newspapers before and during the Spanish Civil War, he wrote of political and moral issues, and, in 1939, fled from Franco’s army into the Pyrenees, dying in exile a month later. He brings to the ordinary—to time, to landscape and stony earth, to bean fields and cities, to events and dreams—magical sound that conveys order, penetrating sight and attention. “The poems written while we are awake…are more original and more beautiful, and sometimes more wild than those made from dreams,” Machado said. When in 1966 a bronze bust of Machado was to be unveiled in a town here he had taught school, thousands of people came in pilgrimage only to find the Civil Guard with clubs and submachine guns blocking their way. This selection of Machado’s poetry, beautifully translated by Bly, begins with the Spanish master’s first book, Times Alone, Passageways in the House, and Other Poems (1903), and follows his work to the poems publ
Three Stars Amazon Customer i sent it to my son and he really loved.. Poor translation or new creation? The charitable view is that Mr. Bly has attempted to translate the feeling of these poems, rather than the sense. The result is completely new poems loosely based on Machado's original.Sadly, that is not my own view. Initially, in fact, my only thought was simply that the man is a terrible translator. Apparently Mr. Bly is himse. Machado ill-served by ubiquitous Bly Bly deserves credit for introducing Spanish poetry to the American audience back in the 1950s and 1960s. Machado is a wonderful poet. Unfortunately, Bly is not a terribly good translator, and the result is a mismatch.