Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance - Paperback

by Rafael Alberti (Author), Carolyn Tipton (Translator)

Rafael Alberti's Returnings burn with erotic intensity fueled by the melancholy of exile, the longing of nostalgia and the consolation of memory.

Author Biography

Rafael Alberti: Rafael Alberti was one of the greatest poets of 20th century Spain. At the Spanish Civil War, Alberti, along with the rest of his Generation who had not been caught or killed, fled. His exile from Spain was to last almost 40 years. He died in 1999.
Carolyn Tipton: Carolyn L. Tipton is a poet, translator, and teacher at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her translation of To Painting: Rafael Alberti, won the National Translation Award.