{"product_id":"written-in-water-the-prose-poems-of-luis-cernuda-by-luis-cernuda","title":"'Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda' by Luis Cernuda","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"588\"\u003eGathering \u003cem data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"86\"\u003eOcnos\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"122\"\u003eVariations on a Mexican Theme\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"124\" data-end=\"142\"\u003eWritten in Water\u003c\/em\u003e brings together Luis Cernuda’s prose poems of childhood, desire, exile and place.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"588\"\u003eCernuda returns to the courtyards, gardens and changing light of Seville while writing from the condition of permanent displacement. After leaving Spain during the Civil War, he lived in Britain, the United States and finally Mexico. His prose, fuelled by memory, remakes a lost world with deep precision. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"590\" data-end=\"1042\"\u003eA central poet of Spain’s Generation of ’27, Cernuda writes prose that moves with poetry’s density but retains the reflective freedom of the essay. Weather, music, rooms and landscapes become vessels for desire; the physical world seems continually on the verge of disclosing something it cannot quite say. The later Mexican pieces complicate nostalgia by finding affinities between a newly encountered landscape and the Spain that survives inside him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1044\" data-end=\"1219\"\u003eTranslated from Spanish by Stephen Kessler, this is for readers drawn to Lorca, Paz, Gansel and writing around exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1246\" data-end=\"1369\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCity Lights Books, 2004. Paperback. Very good condition with light edge and corner wear; clean internally and firmly bound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45850393641043,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-22T121134.521.png?v=1784686307","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/written-in-water-the-prose-poems-of-luis-cernuda-by-luis-cernuda","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}