Poems of Consummation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780985612221)

First published in 1968, when the author was seventy, Poems of Consummation is Vicente Aleixandre's intimate, philosophic, densely compressed lyric engagement with old age and the mystery of death. The poems are intense, mostly brief, elemental in their imagery (stone, ocean, wind, fire), and they address, in sometimes gnomic terms, the unknowable--mainly the paradoxes of memory: the simultaneous absence and presence of remembered love and the lover no longer living. The voice in these poems anticipates its own posthumousness, and speaks at times as if (and now in fact) from beyond the grave


Author: Vicente Aleixandre
ISBN-10: 0985612223
ISBN-13: 9780985612221
Publisher: Black Widow Press
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2013
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.50d