Memory of the Fire

Justo Jorge Padrón is one of Spain's leading poets. Born in Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island, in 1943, he is among the most representative poets of the Spanish Generation of the 1970s. The brilliance of his metaphorical imagination provides the Spanish lyric tradition with an incisive, renovating power. Louis Bourne offers here a wide selection from Padrón's thirteen Spanish volumes since 1989 and since his last English collection, On the Cutting Edge (1988).

Justo Jorge Padrón studied law a...