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Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado

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Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado , and Juan Ramon Jimenez
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ASIN: 1556591985

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Antonio Machado (1875â€“1939) is Spain's master poet, the explorer of dream and landscape, and of consciousness below language. Widely regarded as the greatest twentieth century poet who wrote in Spanish, Machado-like his contemporary Rilke-is intensely introspective and meditative. In this collection, the unparalleled translator Willis Barnstone, returns to the poet with whom he first started his distinguished career, offering a new bilingual edition which provides a sweeping assessment of Machado's work. In addition, Border of a Dream includes a reminiscence by Nobel Laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez and a foreword by John Dos Passos.

from "Proverbs and Songs"

Absolute faith. We neither are nor will be. Our whole life is borrowed We brought nothing. With nothing we leave. * You say nothing is created? Don't worry. With clay of the earth make a cup so your brother can drink.

Born near Seville, Spain, Antonio Machado turned to a career in writing and translating in order to help support his family after the death of his father in 1893. His growing reputation as a poet led to teaching posts in various cities in Spain and, eventually, he returned to finish his degree from the University of Madrid in 1918. He remained in Madrid after the outbreak of civil war, committed to the Republican cause, but the violence finally forced him to flee. He died an exile in France.

Willis Barnstone is one of America's foremost translator-poets, bringing into English an extraordinary range of work, from Mao Tse-tung to the New Testament.

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Reading is Believing.......2007-04-27

What an awesomely refreshing book of poems. Exhilarating and scenic Machado's writing is easy to connect with and explore. Refreshingly alive his words illustrate thoughts like no other. What a great read! If you have ever been a fan of poetry you should really check this book out.

Wonderful poetry........2006-08-18

I don't usually read poetry however I'd hear so much about Antonio Machado I thought I give it a try. It was well worth it because I love his work and I feel that I have finally found a poet I can understand and realate to. Although his writing makes me feel good inside - its not because its cheerful writing. It really makes me feel like I'm outside on a sunny, cool, autumn, afternoon pondering my life. It is simple writing in the words, yet creates a deeply introspective, sad, lonely feeling inside my heart - but in a wonderfully meaning way. Now I want to go to Spain, to the places where Antonio lived and wrote, and roam the countryside seeing the places that formed his sights to life.

Delving Deeper into the Dream Below the Sun.......2004-06-18

Antonio Machado is one of the world's greatest poets. This new addition to the slowly growing opus of Machado in English is the largest yet published, and the closest to a "Collected Poems" that we are likely to have for some time to come. (Might Mr. Barnstone be persuaded to put together a Collected Poems of Antonio Machado?) I believe there are certain felicitous pairings of poets and translators, and that the pairing of Willis Barnstone with Machado is just such a case. Mr. Barnstone's earlier volume, The Dream Below The Sun, (The Crossing Press,1981), was my first introduction to Machado's "spare, luminous, profound" poems, and so his translations have been imprinted upon my psyche as "Machado in English." I have read other translations of Machado's work, but none have yet surpassed Mr. Barnstone's.
This selection of Machado's work incorporates the 150 poems from The Dream Below The Sun, the sonnets included in Six Masters of The Spanish Sonnet, an expanded version of the evocative, highly readable and informative essay from that volume as an introduction, and about eighty-five new poems. The crowning addition here is Mr. Barnstone's inclusion of the long ballad "The Land of Alvargonzález," the longest single sustained poem that Machado wrote, presented here for the second time in English (the first translation was published in 1982 in the U.K. by Dennis Doyle). Though Mr. Barnstone rhymes in many of the translations (no mean feat, as I know from personal experience), or uses assonance to help capture the musical quality so integral to Machado's work, in this longer piece he has chosen a kind of blank ballad verse that reads with the fluency, directness and starkness of the original. Like many "folk ballads," the poem deals with greed, jealousy, murder (in this case: particide) and the supernatural force of a justice which metes out an appropriately grim punishment for the evildoers.
Mr. Barnstone has also included fuller translations of long sequences that Machado titled "Proverbs and Songs" (there are two different ones with this title: one from Fields of Castilla, 1907-1917, and another from New Songs, 1917-1930), plus numerous others featured in selected form in the earlier Crossing Press volume, and a few new ones. These sequences are full of intensely lucid perceptions, aphoristic incisiveness, paradoxical wisdom and sharp lyrical beauty. Their short, trenchant and suggestive nature brings many of them close to Japanese haikus in quality-certainly some of the closest produced by any major European poet.
I recommend this generous, beautiful volume to anyone who seeks a poetry that sings deeply and resonantly while imparting a heartfelt and soul-deep wisdom about the paradox of being alive as a human being. You will find yourself returning to these poems over and over again, as I have done.

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Antonio Machado: Selected Poems
Antonio Machado
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Regarded by many as the finest poet of twentieth-century Spain, Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875-1939) is not well known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This volume will introduce him to Anglo-American readers, enabling them to experience at first hand the subtle nuances of his verse. Some two hundred fifty poems in Spanish, drawn from Machado's entire oeuvre, are accompanied on facing pages by sensitive and beautifully fluent translations which render the originals accessible to the mind and the ear.

Mr. Trueblood annotates the individual poems, placing them in context and illuminating their allusions and undertones. In addition, he provides a substantial biographical and critical Introduction. This gives an overview of Machado's life, as a poet and teacher and wide-ranging commentator on cultural, political, and social affairs. (Forced into exile at the end of the Civil War, he crossed the Pyrenees on foot and died a month later.) The Introduction also discusses the qualities of Machado's predominantly quiet and reflective verse, as well as the development of the thought of this major poet. 

Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Wesleyan Poetry)
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la cumbre poetica de A. Machado

Campos de Castilla
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la cumbre poetica de A. Machado.......2007-06-02

"Campos de Castilla se considera la obra cumbre de Antonio Machado. Publicada en 1912, poco antes de morir su esposa Leonor, y ampliada sucesivas veces con nuevos poemas, expone las meditaciones del hombre sobre lo "eterno humano": domina en la obra lo que se denominan "cuadros costumbristas", cuadros de paisajes y de gentes, meditaciones sobre la soledad, lo adusto del paisaje, el pasado efímero y la muerte.

El paisaje aparece recogido unas veces de forma objetiva, sin artificios -A orillas del Duero-, y a veces lo descubrimos con una intención oculta bajo las descripciones de Castilla, que nos sugieren la preocupación del poeta sobre temas tales como la patria o la soledad... El mañana efímero, Una España joven... temas propios de la Generación del 98, a la que no pertenecía "de facto", pero de la que declarará: "Mi relación con aquellos hombres [...] es la de un discípulo con sus maestros..."

El poema se divide en dos partes temáticas bien definidas; la primera parte (versos 1-25) se caracteriza por la ausencia de verbos predicativos, se trata entonces de un grupo de versos de verbo nominativo y que se caracterizan por ser puramente descriptivos, en este caso la esencia de Castilla; en la segunda parte (versos 26-52) tenemos ya verbos predicativos y entonces la descripción pura del paisaje pasa a la narrativa, interpelando incluso a los elementos del paisaje (versos 31-32).

Las descripciones paisajísticas comienzan de lo general a lo particular, con la "Primavera soriana" del párrafo primero; continuamos con "¡Campillo amarillento... Pradera ..." del párrafo segundo; "... de tierra dura y fría/donde apuntan centenos y trigales...); (y otra vez roca y roca). Y continuamos con dos interpelaciones a Castilla que acentúan el clímax descriptivo final de la primera parte.

En la segunda parte, caracterizada por el elemento narrativo, comenzamos de nuevo con una descripción que comienza por lo general para finalizar con lo particular: verso 26 "Era una tarde, cuando el campo huía/ del sol..."; del cielo el porta pasa a describir los cerros verso 35 "Entre cerros de plomo y de ceniza..."; de ahí al puente versos 38-39 "iba. a embestir los ocho tajamares / del puente el padre río"; y de ahí a los ríos que surcan la tierra de Castilla verso 40 "que surca de Castilla el yermo frío".

extractado de "realidad literaria". Antonio Machado es una excelente lectura poetica, se los recomiendo animosamente.

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Antonio Machado¡¯s poetry is the fruit of a profound reflection on the human being ¨Dthoughts, feelings and core worries. With sublime lyrical language, the selected poems contained in this book reveal the beating heart of a man who lived his life intensely and whose poetry bears witness to his passing. A complete study of the work, the author and his time as well as some explanatory notes to assist in the complete understanding of the work, are included here.

Description in Spanish: La poes¨ªa de Antonio Machado es el resultado de una reflexi¨®n sobre el ser humano, sus sentimientos y sus preocupaciones esenciales, expresada a trav¨¦s de la mejor forma l¨ªrica.

En los poemas que se seleccionan en este libro se revela, pues, el coraz¨®n de un hombre que viv¨® intensamente todo cuanto ocurri¨® a su alrededor; de esta experiencia, naci¨® su poes¨ªa.

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With an insightful introduction by Thomas Moore, this volume presents the wisdom and philosophy of one of Spain's most important poets. Born in 1875, Machado, along with Juan Ramon Jimenez and Miquel de Unamuno, formed the famed "generation of 1898," which ushered in a new Spanish poetics. In this series of brief poems, Machado utilizes traditional Spanish verse forms to create a wide-ranging collection.

"Machado, in these Sappho-like fragments, takes us down not only the road less traveled but the road not seen, where transformation and transfiguration come not from self-made millions but from changing 'love into theology'"-Thomas Rain Crowe

Machado: Campos de Castilla (Spanish Texts)

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An introduction offers an in-depth commentary on Machado's themes, techniques and metaphysical manner. In addition to examining the various influences on his work - Krausism, Bergsonism and the '98 Generation's concern for "el problema de Espana" - the introduction looks at Machado's life, especially the years of composition, 1907-17, and it traces the critical phases in his poetic development: the discovery of the Castilian landscape in Soria, his growing political consciousness, his personal tragedy as a bereaved husband and his existential meditaions in Baeza. Annotations in the form of endnotes provide additional factual information and clarify points of difficulty in the text.

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