City Lights Books onix@onixsuite.com 20130218 eng

GCDS-9780872862777 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100898680 02 0872862771 03 9780872862777 15 9780872862777 BC 1 A01 Gil de Biedma, Jaime Jaime Gil de Biedma Jaime Gil de Biedma was born in Barcelona in 1929 He studied law, and then worked and lived in Manila for long periods. He died of AIDS in 1990. 2 B06 Nolan, James James Nolan James Nolan is the author of<em> Why I live in the Forest</em> and <em>What Moves is not the Wind</em> (Wesleyan University Press); and he is the translator of Pablo Neruda's <em>Stones of the Sky</em> (Copper Canyon). 01 eng 120 01 <P>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 modern and free. <br> Jaime Gil de Biedma was born in Barcelona in 1929. He studied law, and then worked and lived in Manila for long periods. He died of AIDS in 1990. James Nolan is the author of Why I Live in the Forest and What Moves Is Not the Wind (Weslyan University Press), and the translator of Pablo Neruda's Stones of the Sky (Copper Canyon).</P> 02 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... 08 "Gil de Biedma's poetry will probably be the solid residue left after the century burns up. The cottage walls of Spanish culture will fall, the ideological furniture catch fire, the columns melt.... But these poems will remain like paving stones." Joan Barril, El país (Madrid) 08 "Original and amazing poems. 'Pandemic and Celest' should be as well-known and admired as Walt Whitman's Calamus." Robert Peters 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100898680/images/87286100898680L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100898680/images/87286100898680S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100898680 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19930701 01 8.75 in 02 5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 19930701 01 02 9.95 USD