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"To the Poets of the Future" Author: [Spanish] Luis Cernuda Publisher: East China Normal University Press
"To the Poets of the Future" Author: [Spanish] Luis Cernuda Publisher: East China Normal University Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
But I don't care that no one understands
Between these nearly contemporary bodies,
They don't live like me.
This body from the crazy land
Struggling to become wings to reach the wall of space
It is that wall that separates my years from your future.
I just want my arm to meet another friendly arm,
Another pair of eyes sharing what I see.
Even though you don't know how I love you today
White abyss in future time
Find the shadow of your soul and learn from her
To settle my passions in new terms.
——Cernuda, "To the Poets of the Future"
If the art of poetry has its patron saints, like Dickinson and Paul Celan, then Cernuda is among them.
--Harold Bloom
The most un-Spanish Spanish poet.
—Octavio Paz
About the Author · · · · · ·
Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) is a Spanish poet. He was born in Seville in the south and had a strong interest in poetry since childhood. He received a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Seville, but never worked as a lawyer or judge. Under the influence of the poet Salinas, he began to publish poems in magazines. In Madrid, he met poets such as Lorca and Aleixandre. Later, due to the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in Britain, the United States, and Mexico, and was unable to return to his country until his death. Cernuda was a controversial member of the "27 Generation". He was deeply influenced by the European poetry tradition, and his works also deeply influenced several generations of Spanish poets.
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