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Written In Water
Written In Water
The Collected Prose Poems
By Luis Cernuda
Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler
ISBN 0-87286-431-6
Paperback original, 128 pp
$15.95



Written In Water is the winner for the Lambda Literary Awards in Gay Men's Poetry 2005!

Prose poems by one of Spain’s greatest poets

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?)"

"Stephen Kessler's brilliant translation . . . has to be one of the best books of Spanish poetry to appear in English this year." – The Bloomsbury Review


Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was one of the leading poets of Spain’s Generation of 1927, which included Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafael Alberti, and Jorge Guillén.




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