Longing: Selected Poems

by James Nolan

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The poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma, the most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war, is finally, after years of censorship under Generalissimo Franco, reaching a huge audience in Spain. His poems capture the mood of post-civil war Spain and of cosmopolitan Barcelona, where the poet belonged to a celebrated literary movement within the antifascist resistance. His poems are ironic and urban, satiric and unusually Mediterranean. The poet profiled in his poetry--defiant, self-mocking, with a nostalgic tango in the background--has become a legendary figure in the long struggle of the Spanish t emerge from the dictatorship...

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  • ISBN13 9780872862777
  • Publish Date 1 January 2001
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 28 January 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint City Lights Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 180
  • Language English