Poesias

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Losada. 1978. Seventeenth Edition (1981). First published in 1943. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps: a faint crease near the top corner of the rear panel which imparts an extremely faint ripple through the last half or so of the pages; mild rubbing to the panels; the text pages show the expected light tanning, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome nearly-new copy showing very minor, unobtrusive flaws. An attractive reading copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.55 x 0.6 inches) . 271 pages. Index. Language: Spanish. Weight: 6 ounces. Front panel depicts a photograph by Silvio Baldessari of the youthful author with a young woman on his arm. Let us presume it is his young bride. Biblioteca clasica y contemporanea. Fifteenth Edition (1978) . First published in 1943. Mass Market Paperback. Antonio Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado (1875 –1939) was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98. Machado's later poems are a virtual anthropology of Spain's common people, describing their collective psychology, social mores, and historical destiny. He achieves this panorama through basic myths and recurrent, eternal patterns of group behavior. He developed these archetypes in Campos de Castilla ("Castilian Fields") in such key poems as "La tierra de Alvargonzález", and "Por tierras de España", which are based on Biblical inheritance stories. His metaphors use geographical and topographical allusions that frame powerful judgments about socio-economic and moral conditions on the Peninsula. .