Cancionero y romancero de ausencias

Written in prison and published posthumously in Buenos Aires, Cancionero y romancero de ausencias (Songbook and Ballad Collection of Absences), the last collection of poems by Miguel Hernández, whose death prevented him from finishing it, represents the literary maturity of this author of the Generation of '36, so closely linked to the Generation of '27. With the concision and lyricism characteristic of the songbook, he champions hope in the tragic times imposed by the desolation of the Spanish Civil War. Without forgetting his own difficult situation—deprived of his freedom and ill—he places his faith in the future in the innocence of childhood and in love, which he identifies with his son, to whom he dedicates one of the book's most popular poems, "Nanas de la cebolla" (Lullabies of the Onion). Luis Alberto de Cuenca has established this fundamental work of Spanish poetry.