{"product_id":"the-poet-and-the-sea-9781935210016","title":"The Poet and the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a very valuable book  Dozens of poems are here that have never been translated into English before, and I think Berg and Maloney have done beautifully transferring Juan Ramon's enthusiastic calm from Spanish to English. Terrific.\"--\u003cb\u003eRobert Bly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As he observes metaphysical somersaults of sea and land, Juan Ram n is the master of replete simplicity. 'A steel sea' pops up on a 'hard flat field\/of exhausted mines\/in a devastation of ruin.' Or, like Emily Dickinson's 'hope falls down a hill, ' Jim nez has, 'Hope, a seagull, \/ alights here and there.' The utter nakedness of his verse touched virtually all modern Spanish poetry, directly engendering, for example, Rafael Alberti's masterful sea book, Sailor on Land, and 'I walk the streets of the sea.' In The Poet and the Sea, a delicious book perfectly rendered by Mary Berg and Dennis Maloney, Juan Ram n has made essential pacts of intimacy with the great waters of the world. The seas grow in trickery and gravity in endless dramas as two figures emerge: a blind yet live sea and a poet who sees through the sea. The sea is a changing mirror of the poet who has imposed his vision on the whims of his companion sea.\"--\u003cb\u003eWillis Barnstone\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis bilingual collection traces Juan Ramon Jimenez's relationship with the sea, a major theme in his work, from his seminal book \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Poet Recently Married\u003c\/i\u003e alongside other poems from his body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeas \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I feel my boat \u003cbr\u003e has struck something large\u003cbr\u003e there, in the depths of the sea  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And then nothing\u003cbr\u003e happens  Nothing...Silence... Waves... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nothing happens? Or has everything happened And are we now, calm, in someplace new?\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan Ramon Jimenez\u003c\/b\u003e (1881-1958) was a member of the Generation of 1898, which ushered in a renaissance in Spanish poetry. In 1956 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslators \u003cb\u003eMarg Berg\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDennis Maloney\u003c\/b\u003e have previously collaborated on Antonio Machado's book \u003ci\u003eThe Landscape of Castile\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juan Ramon Jimenez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Pine Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935210016","brand":"White Pine Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42758942523529,"sku":"9781935210016","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_e2706936-3545-4212-953c-1226afbb040b.jpg?v=1720499804","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-poet-and-the-sea-9781935210016","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}