Against Heaven Selected Poems

, by Loynaz, Dulce María; O'Connor, James

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ISBN: 9781857548310 | 1857548310
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Copyright: 10/1/2007

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The first available English translation of this work shares numerous selections of the author's most popular poems. A cultural icon in her native Cuba, Loynaz's poetry was considered taboo because of its individualistic, apolitical preoccupations. This collection contains poems from each of Loynaz's books, including the acclaimed prose poems fromPoems with No Names,a selection of posthumously published work.

Eternity	p. 27
Morning prayer	p. 29
My serene sorrow	p. 33
Better yet	p. 33
Sonnet	p. 35
Song of forgotten love	p. 37
Ballad of belated love	p. 39
The traveler	p. 41
Premonition	p. 41
Prison in the air	p. 43
If you love me, love all of me	p. 43
Always, love	p. 45
Fear	p. 47
The price	p. 49
I broke every road I walked	p. 49
What love is	p. 51
Digression	p. 53
Detachment	p. 55
Destruction	p. 55
In the desert	p. 57
In my verse I am free	p. 57
To she who loves so sadly	p. 59
A wish	p. 59
Archangel Saint Michael	p. 61
Song for a barren woman	p. 63
Island	p. 73
Water games	p. 75
When we go to the sea	p. 77
The mermaids	p. 77
Presence	p. 79
Small window	p. 79
A moment	p. 81
Mariner with the dark face	p. 83
Evil thought	p. 85
Ponds	p. 85
Harp	p. 87
"God, the babes you sent"	p. 91
"I cast my word"	p. 91
"A man creates a noble, lasting work"	p. 93
"Body and soul"	p. 93
"Every morning a rose rots"	p. 95
"She lived - she was able to live - "	p. 95
"The world gave me many things"	p. 95
"Happy are you"	p. 97
"This spring the roses"	p. 97
"You have wings and I don't"	p. 97
"Within you there is the weariness"	p. 99
"Something subtle and profound"	p. 99
"The truth gives rise to faith"	p. 99
"The pebble is the pebble"	p. 99
"As passionate and delirious"	p. 101
"The dry stump of the dead rosebush"	p. 101
"And I said to the pebbles"	p. 101
"You know a man by his love"	p. 103
"I constantly watch, the sun"	p. 103
"In every grain of sand"	p. 105
"Solitude! : ever dreamed of solitude!"	p. 105
"There was a lull in the pain"	p. 105
"I still don't know how it happened"	p. 107
"I will adapt myself	p. 109
"Come! Now! Maybe it's not too late"	p. 109
"So you won't see the roses"	p. 111
"You eclipse the sky"	p. 111
"If you're happy with these eyes"	p. 111
"I have fed my solitude"	p. 113
"You're dead"	p. 113
"It could be the fog"	p. 115
"There is still one difference"	p. 115
"How my solitude becomes you!"	p. 117
"On our way to the cemetery"	p. 117
"I have a sea"	p. 119
"My love, give me yesterday's rose"	p. 119
"I never call your name"	p. 119
"I am bent over your image"	p. 119
"Follow your own road"	p. 121
"Of the twenty-four hours that make up a day"	p. 123
"In the deep valley of my sorrows"	p. 125
"You poured through my heart"	p. 125
"Every day at nightfall"	p. 127
"These are my joys"	p. 129
"It is useless to give my love direction"	p. 129
"And that light?"	p. 129
"My flame was so blue"	p. 131
"Cast your net on my soul"	p. 131
"You adorned my breast"	p. 131
"Forgive me for everything"	p. 133
"God, please don't, give my poems"	p. 133
"I need you to lull this sick heart to sleep"	p. 135
"God, I do not need Ash Wednesday"	p. 135
"I love you with a love"	p. 137
"You took the lamp"	p. 137
"It was after midnight when I left you"	p. 137
"I wouldn't trade my solitude"	p. 137
"Lord, it is You who gave me these eyes"	p. 139
"Many birds have drowned"	p. 139
"My dreams are beginning"	p. 141
"The moon through the disheveled banana trees"	p. 141
"My poetry suffers"	p. 141
"Your dreams have no wings"	p. 143
"I have been cutting my poetry"	p. 143
"The entire world is empty"	p. 143
"Poetry and love ask for patience"	p. 145
"Poesy! You divine, savage beast!"	p. 145
"Who is this mad farmer"	p. 145
Love letter to King Tutankhamun	p. 149
The last days of a house	p. 157
The bride of Lazarus	p. 189
"Your eyes have the stunned look"	p. 201
"For God's sake, don't touch me!"	p. 201
"I know you were afraid last night"	p. 201
"There are people in this world"	p. 203
"One is not oneself	p. 203
"There was a humble sadness	p. 203
"This cruel stubborn silence"	p. 203
"Walking past the bog"	p. 205
"Your hands have a strange clarity"	p. 205
"In the end the only thing"	p. 205
"Fugitive wayward shadows"	p. 207
"The truth of men is meaningless"	p. 207
"I caress the tempest"	p. 207
"Since you are going to leave"	p. 209
"The believer was convinced"	p. 209
"An autumn melancholy"	p. 211
"Lovers live closer"	p. 211
"I'm happy"	p. 211
"I neither destroy nor create"	p. 211
"What is this cold quiet peace"	p. 213
"The great sea moves in endless desperation"	p. 213
"The vagabond planted a rose"	p. 213
"The humble silence of dry earth"	p. 215
"I am not I"	p. 215
"We shouldn't leave the job of loving the earth"	p. 215
"All things alive are touched by autumn's melancholy"	p. 217
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