by Miguel Hernández · Alianza Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420651699
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This anthology of Miguel Hernández's work offers a synthesis of 20th-century Spanish poetry. Hernández cultivated various lyrical trends, always with a personal touch of striking and luminous metaphors. Born in Orihuela and deceased in prison after the Civil War, he transcended localism through culturalism, culminating in a poetry of romances and songs, influenced by surrealism and combat poetry. This edition, prepared by Jorge Urrutia, includes selections from 'El rayo que no cesa', 'Viento del pueblo', 'El hombre acecha', 'Cancionero y Romancero de ausencias', and poems not collected in books.
Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, he was self-taught in what refers to literature, and struggled against an unfavourable environment to build up his intellectual education, such as a father who physically abused him for spending time with books instead of working, and who took him out of school as soon as he finished his primary education. At school, he became a friend of Ramón Sijé, a well-educated boy who lent and recommended books to Hernández, and whose death would inspire his most famous poem, Elegy.
