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Rafael Alberti

Rafael Alberti, born in 1902, is the last surviving member of the so-called "Generation of 1927" that included such notable Spanish poets as Federico García Lorca, Vincente Aleixandre, Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, and Luis Cernuda.

Concerning the Angels

Rafael Alberti

First published in Spain in the summer of 1929, Concerning the Angels (Sobre los angeles) is the great Spanish poet Rafael Alberti's masterpiece, on a par with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Pablo Neruda's Residencia en la tierra, and Federico Garcia...