Research Catalog

Title

Written in water : the prose poems of Luis Cernuda / translated by Stephen Kessler.

Author

Cernuda, Luis.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : City Lights Books, ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kessler, Stephen, 1947-
• Cernuda, Luis.

Description

xiv, 156 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Prose poems. English

Alternative Title

Prose poems.

Subject

• Cernuda, Luis > Translations into English
• Cernuda, Luis
• Prose poems, Spanish > Translations into English
• Prose poems, Spanish

Genre/Form

Translations.

Contents

Ocnos -- Poetry -- Nature -- Autumn -- The Piano -- Eternity -- The Nursery -- Fear -- The Bazaar -- Time -- Street Cries -- The Poet and the Myths -- Scandal -- Summer Mornings -- Vice -- Hidden Beauty -- The Cathedral and the River -- Ancient Garden -- The Poet -- Pleasure -- The Magnolia -- The City from a Distance -- The Teacher -- The Flood -- The Journey -- The Smitten -- Evening -- Jose Maria Izquierdo -- Music and the Night -- Walled Convent -- Nighttime Sorcery -- Destiny -- Shadows -- The Shops -- Music -- The Sea -- Learning to Forget -- Summer -- The Lover -- City on the Plateau -- Saint -- The Storm -- War and Peace -- Panther -- Love -- Caledonia City -- River -- The Blackbird -- The Heath -- Library -- The Old Women -- Ways of Living -- Spring -- Snow -- Light -- Solitude -- The Park -- The Bells -- The Arrival -- Helen -- Home -- Return to Darkness -- Silent Call -- Harmony -- Variations on a Mexican Theme -- The Theme -- Variations -- The Language -- Miravalle -- Dignity and Repose -- Country Musicians -- What's Ours -- Waterborne -- The Sidewalk -- Flower Vendors -- The Overlook -- The Image -- The People -- Wasting Time -- Unusual Sunset -- The Churches -- Doing Nothing -- Death's Toys -- Eyes and the Voice -- The Magic Grotto -- Duet -- A Garden -- The Market -- Property -- The Patio -- Daybreak in the Gulf -- Possession -- The Indian -- A Man's Center -- Empty Shell -- Return -- Written in Water.

ISBN

• 0872864316
• 9780872864313

LCCN

2003025653

OCLC

• ocm53831847
• 53831847
• SCSB-9166123

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library