Poetry
Unida noche
Not translated into English
Ricardo E. Molinari · 1957
Synopsis
The collection brings together odes, according to Luis Bagué Quílez: the “Oda al viento grande del Oeste”, one of the author's great landscape frescoes, or the “Oda a un ángel de la tarde”; the pampa and the wind have a large place in it. Ricardo H. Herrera also draws from it “Sombras de romances. Ramírez”. Herrera describes in it a poetry of solitude, loss and disappointed love, in which nature offers only a fragile respite, and which juxtaposes words to weave a web of emotions rather than an explicit meaning.
Context
The collection appeared in 1957 from Emecé, in Buenos Aires, according to the BnF; it won the author the first national prize, in 1958 (in 1957 according to La Nación). Bagué Quílez links it to an elegiac line with long metrical sequences. Herrera notes throughout the author's poetry the conjunction “if” and the conditional, which express unfulfilled desire, and observes that fixed forms were not his strong point.
Who it is for
Odes and poems in Spanish, in a free, elegiac language; no known French translation.
Prizes and reception
The book that earned its author, according to La Nación, the highest poetry award in his country.
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