Poesía Completa
by José Martí
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Come, Come-My Boiling Blood contains the complete texts of Jos Mart's first five books of poetry. Most readers know Yo Soy un Hombre Sincero because of the wonderful rendition by Pete Seeger, but to date the large body of Jos Mart's poetic work has been unavailable in English translation. One of the greatest writers of Spanish America, Jos Mart is revered not only as the father of modernist poetry, but also of the Cuban independence movement. His political activism fueled his writing, show more motivating him to produce poetry, political manifestos, speeches, and hundreds of articles and reviews for journals worldwide. He is considered a hero by many for his leadership of the nationalist forces in the Cuban war of independence, which eventually led to his untimely death. His writings and political activism were based on strong personal beliefs of morality, independence, and patriotism, a combination that both his followers and readers have found compelling for over a hundred years. Jos Mart was born in Havana, Cuba. During his life he suffered imprisonment and exile for his beliefs. He was killed in battle with Spanish troops at the Battle of Dos Rios in 1895. Jack Ageros was born in East Harlem in 1934 and still resides in New York City. A poet, playwright, fiction writer, and translator, he has published three books of poetry and a collection of short stories titled Dominoes. He is the translator and editor of Song of the Simple Truth, a bilingual collection of poems by Julia de Burgos. show lessTags
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Martí -que había llamado "hijo" a Rubén Darío- puede verse ahora, en la decantada perspectiva de los años y hecha imperiosamente efectiva la ruptura generacional en materia de lenguaje, como otro de los fundadores de modernismo, si no con una antelación rigurosa al poeta nicaragüense - a quien llevaba varios años- si con elementos precursorales no menos valiosos y, por otra parte, datados en fechas paralelas...
Sep 19, 2021Spanish
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Marti is a symbol of Cuban independence, for he campaigned throughout his life for its liberation and finally died in the war against Spain. He was also an important literary figure and one of the founders of modernism. Rejecting the elaborate aestheticism of many modernists, he wrote in a simpler style based largely on folk poetry, as in show more "Ismaelillo" and "Versos Sencillos." Much of his poetry deals with the struggle for freedom and his political and emotional exile from his homeland. He was also an accomplished prose stylist in a much more intricate fashion and influenced the later development of the short story and essay. His writings, now collected, many of which were originally published in newspapers, are essential for an understanding of the Spanish American independence process. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Poesía Completa
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Music
- DDC/MDS
- 861 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures Spanish poetry
- LCC
- PQ7389 .M2 .A17 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
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- Languages
- English, Spanish
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- ISBNs
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