Poesias

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Losada. Very Good+. 1981. Seventeenth Edition. Paperback. Very Good+ in Wraps: a faint crease near the bottom corner of the front panel and some scuffing to the head and heel of the backstrip; mild rubbing to the panels; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy showing mild wear and minor imperfections. An attractive reading copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.55 x 0.6 inches) . 271 pages. Index. 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. Language: Spanish. Weight: 6 ounces. Biblioteca clasica y contemporanea. Seventeenth Edition (1981) . 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. .