God Desired and Desiring

"The development of my poetry has been and is the development of an encounter with an idea about God," the great Spanish poet and Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez wrote several years before his death. An early twentieth-century pioneer in the use of free verse, Jiménez has always expressed himself through mystery and profundity. Jiménez presents a fervent landscape of primordial imagery in an attempt to restore mystical poetry to its rightful place in literature and art.

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