If Only For A Moment (I'll Never Be Young Again)

Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma

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Pub Date Mar 04 2025 | Archive Date Not set

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The icon of a passionate literary cult, Jaime Gil de Biedma is widely recognized as Spain’s finest poet since Federico García Lorca.

Jaime Gil de Biedma is the most original and influential among the poets known as the ‘50’s Generation in Spain, and is considered the greatest Spanish poet to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. His life and literary career were bracketed almost entirely by the rise and fall of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, notorious for the suppression of literature. Born in 1929, he was six years old when García Lorca was murdered in Granada at the outbreak if the Civil War, and his collected poems, Las personas del verbo, first appeared in 1975, the year Franco died. What is surprising is that Gil de Biedma was a leftist, homosexual poet from the Catalan capitol, Barcelona – all of Franco’s favorite things – who not only published books of autobiographical poetry in Spain but was known as a poet of social conscience as well as erotic lyricism. Like other Spanish poets of his time, he chose his words carefully.

Translated by James Nolan.

The icon of a passionate literary cult, Jaime Gil de Biedma is widely recognized as Spain’s finest poet since Federico García Lorca.

Jaime Gil de Biedma is the most original and influential among the...


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ISBN 9798987589052
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PAGES 184

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