Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Edited and Translated from the Spanish by Marta L籀pez-Luaces, Johnny Lorenz, and Edwin M. Lamboy. "The poetic texts chosen and translated here represent a profound
transition��sychological and political��ndergone by the new Spanish citizen. This anthology focuses on the poetry written in Spain after 1975. All the poets included were raised under Franco's
dictatorship, which lasted forty years. Those born in the sixties or later, such as Ernesto L籀pez Garc穩a and Luis Mu簽oz, lived under the dictatorial regime for less than a decade; consequently,
they experienced the dictatorship as a vague memory rather than as a foundation, unlike the older poets. In any case, the social reality after Franco's death in 1975 was very different from
that in which all of these poets had been raised. A new conception of the self had to emerge after the transition to democracy, and this was expressed in the work of many poets as a liberating,
though painful, transformation, a transformation that affected the very concept of language. Naturally, the radical reinvention of language produced a reinvention of the self."��rom the
introduction by Marta L籀pez-Luaces
Poetry by Juana Castro, Antonio Colinas, Jenaro Talens, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Olvido Garc穩a Vald矇s, Diego Mart穩nez Torr籀n, Francisco Ruiz Noguera, Jaime Siles, C矇sar Antonio Molina, Julia
Otxoa, Miguel Casado, Mar穩a Antonia Ortega, Juan Carlos Su簽矇n, Juan Carlos Mestre, Emilio Porta, Tom獺s S獺nchez Santiago, Rodolfo H瓣sler, Blanca Andreu, Amalia Iglesias Serna, Jorge Riechmann,
Marta L籀pez-Luaces, Luis Mu簽oz, Jordi Doce, Vicente Luis Mora, and Ernesto Garc穩a L籀pez.
