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“In Machado there are no gypsies, no bulls, no castanets. His poetry has the still luminosity of a life lived in provincial backwaters in solitude and silence”—New York Times Book Review
A new translation of poetry that enhances the ordinary.
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Bly.
Bly “gives Machado with all of his tremendous sensitivity. He captures Machado’s subtle sense of humor. He traces his stylistic and poetic experiments aimed at, as Machado put it, ‘stitching the inner and the outer worlds together through poetry.’ And finally, he sculpts for us the story of Machado’s quiet though deeply passionate life. It was a life whose synthesis of joy and loss produced an uncommon blend of optimism and hope.” —San Francisco Chronicle Review
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ANTONIO MACHADO (1875-1939), school teacher and philosopher, and one of Spain’s foremost poets, writes clearly and without narcissism of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland. He brings to the ordinary –to time, to landscape and stony earth, to beanfields ad cities, to events and dreams – magical sound that conveys order, penetrating sight, and attention. Translated by ROBERT BLY.
ROBERT BLY is the author of ten books of poetry. Antonio Machado was a strong influence on his first book of poetry, Silence in the Snowy Fields. Bly has edited and translated works of Swedish, German, Norwegian, and Persian poetry, including that of Neruda and Rilke. He received the National Book Award for poetry in 1968. His home is in Moose Lake, Minnesota.
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