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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler. Luis Cernuda was one of the leading poets of Spain's Generation of 1927, which inlcuded Federcio Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti. In this collection of prose poems, Cernuda traces an explicit outline of his life's journey and provides a vivid testimony to its various aspects. "In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity; the poet doesn't set out to fantasize, or to lie to himself or anyone else. He attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments in his life"--Octavio Paz