Invisible Reality
The great Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, was a mystic as will as a poet, and the deep spirituality which infuses so much of his writing makes itself felt with special fervor throughout this remarkable new collection of poems.\ Composed by Jimenez between the years 1917 to 1920, the works in this grouping vanished mysteriously, only to be rediscovered a half-century later among the author's private papers. Published in Spain for the first...
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The great Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, was a mystic as will as a poet, and the deep spirituality which infuses so much of his writing makes itself felt with special fervor throughout this remarkable new collection of poems. Composed by Jimenez between the years 1917 to 1920, the works in this grouping vanished mysteriously, only to be rediscovered a half-century later among the author's private papers. Published in Spain for the first time in 1983, they appear now at last in a bilingual edition, the English lovingly rendered by the scholar and poet Antonio T. de Nicolas, and introduced by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson. This is a book of verse for the poet in all of us -- it sings of the invisible realities which we carry in our hearts and which carry us through a life filled with symbols, toil and beauty.
AcknowledgmentxiTranslator's DedicationxiiiIntroductionxvTranslator's NotexixI.Invisible RealityHome Land3She Used to Talk in a Different Way from Us All5How the Light of Day7Poplar Tree9Winter11White Cloud13Unable to Sleep15Sadness17Is Everything Nothing?19Song, You Are My Life21A Sky23Night, Tranquil Lake25Sunset27The Work29Pre Spring31This Eagerness to Dream33Calm35The Sun37Sorrow39At This Very Instant41Joy43Song45I Am the Center of My Immense World47Nocturnal49We Came, Ay! to Our Closest Two51Dreams53Woman, How Quickly55Nocturne57Every Moment That Goes By59Love61Daydreams63You So Close, How Distant65Outside67Ideal Epitaph69No, It Is Not Possible to Fit My Ideal Hours71O, Colorful Days in the Night!73Day after Day, My Pen75Sleep77Roses79How Well the House Fits81The Work83Ideal Sea85Nightfall87Evening89Ideal Sea91Sister93The Work95Happiness97Love99Did You, Perhaps, Solitary One, Get Tired101This Need to Drain103Ay, How I Feel the Strong Fountain105II.Beloved Old AgeNew Life109What Does It Matter111They113Thought, Sweet Magnet115Roses117Sea119Eyes, Each One Resembling121Face--Large Eyes!123Not Someone Else125Death127If I Could Only Say129September131Sweetly, the Evening133Mother135They137Punishment139Window141Mother143Harbor145Descend Towards Nothingness, with My Love147Death149Brief Definition that of Death151Horrible Book--Death!153Now, Nowhere155Roses157This Blue Sky159Pre Spring161They163III.Invisible Reality: 2Night, I Was Removing167Vision from Shore169This Is My Life171Power that Uses Me173Song175My Life, Burning Confine177How, Singing, the Bird179The Offense You Gave Me181Things Give Birth183The Butterfly185The Earth Suddenly Turned to Shade187It Was Just As If189Twilight191Return193Did I Catch You?195What a Continuous Unnailing197Who Were Able to Catch from You, Life199Tomorrow, Tomorrow201The Scent of a Flower Makes Us Masters203Return205We Have Been207Escapes209If I Only Were Like a Place in the Sea211Ideal Sea213You Looked215Interior Season217Sunset219Love221Who Could Be Like You, Secret223Port225What Difference Does It Make227Death229Stars231First Divine Love233Awake235Light237I Thought I Had Lost239The Black Night241Tonight, Leave the Door Open243Spring Return of an Epitaph245But You Were More247Like the Shade of a Flower249Ideal Epitaph251The Only Friend253Very Late255It Is Not You257AppendixNocturne261How Hard It Is For Me261It Is Not from You263They Will Be One, Sky or Sea, Sea or Sky263I Looked to the East265Death267Mothers who have Known Nothing About Me267Let Him Yet Live for Many Years269Lightness269Beautiful Instants271The Present273How Difficult It Is to Enter275Thought Lays Over Instinct275Sleeping Poets, Sleeping Children275Anthill of the Hours277Flying I Became Lost277My Heart, Your Flower279No, It Will Become Lost279
