Elegías y nanas : Poesía selecta

In the entire tradition of Spanish-language poetry, there is no poet as talented and ill-fated as Miguel Hernández. The author of half a dozen instant literary classics—such as "Elegía," "Nanas de la cebolla," "Hijo de la luz y la sombra," and "Canción última"—saw his career brutally cut short after he was imprisoned as a political prisoner; already gravely ill, he was denied medical care while in custody. Hernández—whose work is best read alongside that of his peers, Lorca and Cernuda—has been subjected to an artificial division between his intimate poems and his more political ones, between those dedicated to serene visions of nature and those that conjure up bloody scenes of war. This anthology seeks to restore Miguel Hernández to his full stature. It presents verses in which the intimate, the political, nature, and human justice combine to form a nonconformist vision of what each individual can expect from life—verses that become radical songs about tenderness and the darkness of deprivation. Songs of our strategies for resistance and our tireless capacity to rise again. Featuring a foreword by Berta García Faet—one of the most innovative and spirited poets on the contemporary scene—and beautiful illustrations, this volume aims to offer the most complete and complex portrait of a poet who is as indispensable as he is unique.