God Desired and Desiring

by Juan Ramón Jiménez

“The development of my poetry has been and is the development of an encounter with an idea about God,” the great Spanish poet and Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez wrote several years before his death. An early twentieth-century pioneer in the use of free verse, Jiménez has always expressed himself through mystery and profundity. The author presents a fervent landscape of primordial imagery in an attempt to restore mystical poetry to its rightful place in literature and art.

For anyone not familiar with the writings of this modern master, these austere and radiant poems, translated by the poet and scholar Antonio de Nicolás and presented alongside the original Spanish, will demonstrate why Jiménez is considered one of the masters of twentieth-century poetry.

“To what may this writing be compared? Whitman's 'Song of Myself' comes to mind, but it is not with any intention of taking away from Whitman's achievement that I declare a preference for the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez ...” —Louis Simpson, from the Introduction

Genres: Poetry, Nobel Prize

153 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Platero y Yo (1914) ranks as most famous work of Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, who introduced modernism to Spanish verse and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956.

He won this prize "for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity."

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ram...

Reviews

[Mary Thelma · Rating 5 out of 5]

La poesía juanramoniana me cambió la vida.

[Marilyn Letts · Rating 1 out of 5]

Abstract in the extreme. Sun, Sea, God desired and desiring over and over and over and over.

[nallelizette · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 ⭐

[Naiara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leído "La transparencia, Dios, la transparencia".