Download e-book for iPad: Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado by Antonio Machado,Willis Barnstone

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) is Spain’s grasp poet, the explorer of dream and panorama, and of cognizance under language. greatly considered as the best 20th century poet who wrote in Spanish, Machado—like his modern Rilke—is intensely introspective and meditative. during this assortment, the unheard of translator Willis Barnstone, returns to the poet with whom he first all started his unique occupation, providing a brand new bilingual variation which supplies a sweeping overview of Machado’s paintings. moreover, Border of a Dream encompasses a memory via Nobel Laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez and a foreword via John Dos Passos.

from "Proverbs and Songs"

Absolute religion. We neither are nor will be.
Our complete existence is borrowed
We introduced not anything. With not anything we leave.
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You say not anything is created?
Don’t fear. With clay
of the earth make a cup
so your brother can drink.

Born close to Seville, Spain, Antonio Machado turned to a profession in writing and translating to be able to support help his kin after the demise of his father in 1893. His becoming acceptance as a poet ended in educating posts in a variety of towns in Spain and, finally, he lower back to complete his measure from the college of Madrid in 1918. He remained in Madrid after the outbreak of civil struggle, devoted to the Republican reason, however the violence ultimately pressured him to escape. He died an exile in France.

Willis Barnstone is one among America’s most suitable translator-poets, bringing into English a unprecedented variety of labor, from Mao Tse-tung to the recent Testament.