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Absolute Solitude
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems | Dulce Maria Loynaz
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In the first comprehensive selection and translation of Dulce Mara Loynaz's poetry, James O'Connor invites us to hear the haunting voice of Cuba's celebrated poet, whom the Nobel Laureate Juan Ramn Jimnez terms in his Foreword, "archaic and new...tender, weightless, rich in abandon." Widely published in Spain during the 1950s, Loynaz's poetry was almost forgotten in Cuba after the Revolution. International recognition came to her late: at the age of ninety she was living in seclusion in Havana when the Royal Spanish Academy awarded her the 1992 Cervantes Prize, the highest literary accolade in the Spanish language. The first English publication of her work, Absolute Solitude contains a selection of poems from each of Loynaz's books, including the acclaimed prose poems from Poems with No Names, a selection of posthumously published work. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Dilara
Dilara
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems | Dulce Maria Loynaz
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I am reading Dulce María Loynaz's selected poems - including one about snow - in the original Spanish as much as possible, but I'm thankful for the crutch that is the French translation on the opposite page! I am feeling quite proud of myself 😇 😋

#Cuba #poetry #TeamGameSleighers #WGWordSearch

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Chrissyreadit That‘s pretty impressive! You are trilingual! Or do you speak more languages? 3y
Dilara @Chrissyreadit Oh, I'm really not trilingual. I speak English and French. I learned Spanish at school, but I am far from fluent. I'd like to be, but I have a long way to go! 3y
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Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems | Dulce Maria Loynaz
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Pickpick

Also very good.

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goodbyefrancie
goodbyefrancie
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems | Dulce Maria Loynaz
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My favorite room in the house, the library. It makes everything else in my day just fall away.
#riotgrams #librarylove @bookriot
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tammysue 😍😍 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Just beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 7y
JazzFeathers 😍😍😍 I'll never have a library. But l'm working toward a writing spot 😊 7y
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ReadingEnvy
ReadingEnvy
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems | Dulce Maria Loynaz
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"The world gave me many things, but the only thing I ever kept was absolutely solitude."
("Muchas cosas me dieron en el mundo: sólo es mía la pura soledad.")

charl08 What a beautiful looking book. 8y
ReadingEnvy @charl08 it's gorgeous and every poem has Spanish on one page and English on the other 8y
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CarolynOliver
CarolynOliver
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems | Dulce Maria Loynaz
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Wonderful. The perfect melding of the individual and the universal. #poetry #womenintranslation #translation #Cubanliterature

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CarolynOliver
CarolynOliver
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems | Dulce Maria Loynaz
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"The world gave me many things, but the only thing I ever kept was absolute solitude." Falling into selected poems by Dulce María Loynaz, translated by James O'Connor. Beautiful volume from Archipelago Books.
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#translation #poetry #womenintranslation

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CarolynOliver
CarolynOliver
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems | Dulce Maria Loynaz

"The world gave me many things, but the only thing I ever kept was absolute solitude." Falling into selected poems by Dulce María Loynaz, translated by James O'Connor. Beautiful volume from @archipelagobooks. -
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#translation #poetry #womenintranslation