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Winner of the 2016 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation "In Returnings, we are treated to an essay on the imaginative possibilities of a great poet, long exiled from his native land, turning memory into verse, recovering from the past everything that counts: love and friendship and the landscapes that shaped him. Through alleyways and storied ruins, colors and autumn and war, Alberti discovers poetry at every turn."--Christopher Merrill, prize judge "The musical language that drives these urgent poems is echoed exquisitely in Carolyn Tipton's translations."--Stephen Kessler Rafael Alberti was one of the greatest poets of twentieth-century Spain. Poet and translator Carolyn L. Tipton teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements /
Introduction /
RETORNOS DE LO VIVO LEJANO
RETURNINGS: POEMS OF LOVE AND DISTANCE
1
Retornos de una tarde de lluvia /
Returning On A Rainy Evening /
Retornos de los días colegiales /
Returning To School Days /
Retornos de una mañana de primavera /
Returning On A Spring Morning /
Retornos de Chopin a través de unas manos ya idas /
Returning To Chopin, Brought To Life By Hands Now Gone /
Retornos de un día de cumpleaños /
Returning On A Birthday (J.R.J.) /
Retornos de un día de retornos /
Returning On A Day It's All Returned /
Retornos de una isla dichosa /
Returning To A Blissful Island /
Retornos a través de los colores /
Returning Through Color /
Retornos de un museo deshabitado /
Returning To A Deserted Museum /
Nuevos retornos del otoño /
Returning To Autumn Again /
2 Retornos De Amor
Love Returns /
Retornos del amor recién aparecido /
Love Returns As It First Appeared /
Retornos del amor en un palco de teatro /
Love Returns In A Theater-Box /
Retornos del amor en los balcones /
Love Returns On The Balcony /
Retornos del amor tal como era /
Love Returns As It Once Was /
Retornos del amor en una azotea /
Love Returns Up On The Roof /
Retornos del amor ante las antiguas deidades /
Love Returns Amid The Ancient Deities /
Retornos del amor en las dunas radiantes /
Love Returns In The Radiant Dunes /
Retornos del amor en los bosques nocturnos /
Love Returns At Night In The Woods /
Retornos del amor en una noche de verano /
Love Returns On A Summer Night /
Retornos del amor en los vividos paisajes /
Love Returns To Landscapes Still Alive /
Retornos del amor fugitivo en los montes /
Love Returns As A Fugitive In The Mountains /
Retornos del amor en la noche triste /
Love Returns In The Sad Night /
Retornos del amor en medio del mar /
Love Returns In The Middle Of The Sea /
Retornos del amor en los antiguos callejones /
Love Returns In Ancient Alleyways /
Retornos del ángel de sombra /
The Angel Of Darkness Returns /
Retornos del amor en las arenas /
Love Returns On The Sands /
Retornos del amor entre las ruinas ilustres /
Love Returns Amidst The Storied Ruins /
Retornos del amor con la luna /
Love Returns With The Moon /
Retornos del amor en las cumbres del viento /
Love Returns On The Summits Of The Wind /
Retornos del amor adonde nunca estuvo /
Love Returns To A Place It's Never Been /
3
Retornos de un poniente en Ravello /
Return Of A Sunset At Ravello /
Retornos de Yehuda Halevi, el castellano /
Return Of Yehuda Halevi, "The Castilian" /
Retornos de la dulce libertad /
Return Of Sweet Freedom /
Retornos de niebla en un día de sol /
Return Of Niebla On A Sunlit Day /
Retornos frente a los litorales españoles /
Return Of The Spanish Coastline /
Retornos de un poeta asesinado /
Return Of An Assassinated Poet /
Retornos de la invariable poesía /
Return Of Constant Poetry /
Retornos del pueblo español /
Return Of The Spanish People /
