María Victoria Atencia: Legend of Myself

by Roberta Ann Quance, María Victoria Atencia

Overview

In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and inner mysticism of work by one of Spain's foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of Spanish collections.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908343918
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	06/30/2014
Series:	Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

María Victoria Atencia was born in Málaga (Andalusia) in 1931 and has lived there or in the country thereabouts all of her life Although trained originally as a pianist she chose a vocation for poetry, instead, publishing her first work in 1953 and continuing to publish to the present day. In 2010 she was given the Federico García Lorca prize for poetry, in recognition of a lifetime of achievement.

Table of Contents

The poems included in this selection are drawn from the following books:

Arte y parte [A hand in it]
Sazón/Season

Cañada de los Ingleses [Englishmen's ravine]
Epitafio para una muchacha/Epitaph for a young girl

Marta& María [Martha & Mary]
1 de diciembre/December 1st
Mar/Sea
San Juan/Midsummer night
Dejadme/Leave me
Con la mesa dispuesta/With the table laid
Ofelia/Ophelia
Marta& María/Martha & Mary

Los sueños [Dreams]
Quintana/Quintana
Color de rosa/Pale pink
El conde D./Count D.

El mundo de M.V. [The world of M.V.]
El retiro de Fray Alonso/Fray Alonso's retreat
Karlskoga/Karlskoga
Ecclesiastes 3,5/Ecclesiastés 3:5
Godiva en blue jean/Godiva in blue jeans

El coleccionista [The collector]
Plazoleta de San Marcos/Little square at St. Mark's
Lázaro/Lazarus

Compás binario [Binary time]
Castellar/Castellar
Epitafio/Epitaph
Jorge Manrique/Jorge Manrique
Cuesta de la Reina/'Hillside of the Queen'
La rama de oro/The golden bough
Jardín/