Horses in the Air and Other Poems [Spanish]

by Jorge Guillén

Book Overview

Winner of the 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.

Jorge Guillen, one of the greatest poets of the Generation of '27, went into voluntary exile during the Spanish Civil War, and spent many years in the US and Latin America.

While some poems in Horses in the Air were written in America, many of them had never been translated into English before. Guillen's view of Europe from the New World, his experience as an exile and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 0872863522
• ISBN13: 9780872863521
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Seemingly easy to read but with an undercurrent.

I am enjoying reading and wondering why he writes so simply. I am also reading poems by W.S. Merwin and they seem so different. I suppose it's personality, nationality, purpose that strike me as most explanatory of their styles. It might be interesting that as I read the Spanish poems in Horses in the Air and then looked at the English translation I found myself thinking that I would have chosen other words. I also dusted off selections of the essay Ariel by Rodo, (in Spanish). Thank you.

Truly terrific

This is an extraordinary book of beautiful poems by one of the best literary translators working today. Cola Franzen's translations are as beautiful as the poems themselves.