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<P>Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain's foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland clearly and without narcissism: «Just as before, I'm interested/in water held in;/ but now water in the living/rock of my chest.» «Machado has vowed not to soar too much; he wants to ‘go down to the hells' or stick to the ordinary,» Robert Bly writes in his introduction. 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. </P><P>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. 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. </P><P>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 published after his death: Poems from the Civil War (written during 1936–;1939).</P>

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Esta edición, a cargo de Sam Vaseghi, incluye los libros de poemas editados en vida de la autora

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Master poet Antonio Machado y Ruiz is widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest Spanish writers. His collection of poems celebrating the region of Castile made him one of the primary voices of the Generation of 1898 — a brilliant group of writers dedicated to Spain's moral and cultural rebirth after the Spanish-American War. Machado's lyrical Campos poems, tinged with nostalgic melancholy, are powerfully introspective and meditative, revealing an evolution away from his previously ornate, Modernist style. With these magnificent poems, Machado moved toward a simpler, more authentic approach that would later distinguish all of his works.This unabridged edition of Machado's landmark Campos de Castilla is presented in a dual-language format which features an excellent new translation on pages facing the Spanish original. A fully informative introduction and comprehensive notes by the translator are also included.

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• Machado’s popularity is likened to that of Rilke • utterly unique prose supporting the book—preface by John Dos Passos and reminiscence by Juan Ramón Jiménez • Barnstone is a foremost translator-poets bringing into English a dizzying range of work, from Mao to the New Testament • this book represents Barnstone’s first published translations, which appeared in 1959 in England and never distributed in US • Barnstone has expanded and improved the original book • CCP has wanted to do a Machado selected for a long time, but we've been waiting for the right one. This is the right one. • When the Nobel Prize was awarded to Juan Ramon Jimenez in 1956, the Nobel committe said of Machado and Garcia Lorca (both disqualified as possible recipients by their death): «Juan Ramon Jimenez represents the high Spanish tradition and to crown him with laurel is also to crown Antonio Machado and Garcia Lorca.»

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