Central motifs are erotic love, solitude, time, and death. Fun, Musicly talented and one of the nicest persons ever. Vincente Aleixandre Vicente Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977, at the age of seventy-nine. At the time, his poetry was barely known outside of Spain, and just two small editions were available in American translation. It conveys to English readers some of the syntactic inventiveness and suggestive imagery of the original, which became a landmark of … Destruction or Love is the first complete English translation of one of the major works by Spanish Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre.
He had a clear understanding of the historical character of all artistic creation, and his own writing reflects his recognition of what was essential in the main currents of Spanish poetic art at … A member of Spain’s Generación del 27, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. The collection spans the entirety of Aleixandre's career--from early surrealist work to his complex and fascinating "dialogues."
A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems by Vicente Aleixandre.
He was strongly influenced by the Surrealist technique of poetic composition . (from Nobel Lecture, 1977) Vicente Aleixandre was born in Seville. Where Alberti and Salinas celebrate music, beauty, love, and painting (especially Alberti), Aleixandre's is a celebration of loneliness, of isolation. Decorated Gran Cruz Orden de Carlos III; recipient National prize, Nobel prize, 1977. Contributor Names Aleixandre, Vicente, 1898-1984. Vicente Aleixandre’s poetry evolved in line with the main transformations in Spanish lyric poetry. There are several small selections translated by Willis Barnstone, Stephen Kessler, and others, published in the ‘80s and ‘90s, but these appear mostly out of print. Vicente Aleixandre, born April 26, 1898, was a Spanish poet who authored several collections, including A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (Copper Canyon Press, 2007).
The poems are directly about whatever is in the title: “To My Dog,” “On the Way to School,” “My Grandfather’s Death.” “On the Death of Miguel Hernández” – so many tributes to Hernández, to Lorca. Despite being a 1977 Nobel Laureate, Vicente Aleixandre (1898-1984) remains relatively sparsely translated into English.
Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish author. Fellow: American Association Teachers Spanish and Portuguese (honorary); member: Hispano-American Bogota Academy, Malaga Academy, Academy of Sciences and Arts Puerto Rico, Monde Latin Paris Academy, Hispanic Society America, Spanish … License University Madrid, 1919. Vicente Aleixandre, born April 26, 1898, was a Spanish poet who authored several collections, including A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (Copper Canyon Press, 2007).
Review: Poems of Consummation by Vicente Aleixandre, translated by Stephen Kessler. Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre reading from his work Summary Mr. Aleixandre reads Ausencia, Sufrimiento, and forty-six poems from sixteen of his collected volumes including Mundo a solas, Nacimiento último, and Historia del corazón. The family moved in his childhood to Málaga, where he grew up and later depicted its sunny landscape in his poems.
«Vicente» Vicente is a Spanish and Portuguese name. He passed away in Madrid on December 14, 1984. “[Vicente Aleixandre] is one of the greatest poets alive and his work stands for endurance, the roots under the tree of consciousness, the slowly growing trunk.” —Robert Bly Get special offers, exclusive content, and news on forthcoming Copper Canyon Press books, readings, and poetry events. Aleixandre's poetry is darker than his peers. Like its Meaning of Vicente in the English dictionary WHAT DOES VICENTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?. His early poems are quite deep and almost unreadable at times, so fraught with esoteric meaning (like Hernandez's early poems) that it might turn the reader off when first presented with this book. Awsome guy. A Longing for the Light is the only available bilingual Spanish-English translation of the poetry of Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre.