Overview
First published in Spain in the summer of 1929, Concerning the Angels (Sobre los angeles) is the great Spanish poet Rafael Alberti's masterpiece, on a par with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Pablo Neruda's Residencia en la tierra, and Federico Garcia Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York. It marks a major departure from the light-hearted tone of the poet's earlier verse, which was notably influence by Andalusian folksong. It is at once intensely imaginative and intimately realistic, a lyrical illumination of the poet's "dark night of the soul."
Rafael Alberti, born in 1902, is the last surviving member of the so-called Generation of 1927 that included such notable Spanish poets Federico Garc a Lorca, Vincente Alexandre, Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillen, and Luis Cernuda.
Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno lives in Massachusetts and teaches in the program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780872862975
- ISBN-10: 0872862976
- Publisher: City Lights Books
- Publish Date: January 2001
- Dimensions: 9 x 5.98 x 0.54 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.58 pounds
- Page Count: 160
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