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Volume 15 of Poetry at the Residencia collection is dedicated to the poet José Manuel Caballero Bonald. His poetry has distinguished since the appearance of his first book, Las adivinaciones (1952), by his personal linguistic adventure and a unique dialogue with the Spanish baroque that made him master of a poetic world and his own style. But his poetry is also a deep reflection on the ethical nature of man and the expression of discomfort with the commonplace readings of reality. "I can not write if I do not feel the imminent need to defend myself against something that I am in radical disagreement", he has said. The audio book reproduces his reading at the Residencia de Estudiantes on January 19, 2011 and offers a selection of his poetry from his first book through his subsequent titles, finishing with a fragment of a work still in progress that shows Caballero Bonald’s expressive qualities at full maturity.

The volume includes a CD with the recording of the reading, with a transcript, a brief biography about the life and work of the poet, and an index of sources of the poems.

José Manuel Caballero Bonald (Jerez de la Frontera, 1926) was professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and at Bryn Mawr College, U.S.A. He worked in the Seminario de Lexicografía de la Real Academia Española. He has received several awards, such as the Premio Nacional de la Crítica, Andalucía de las Letras (1994), Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana (2004), Nacional de las Letras (2005), Nacional de Poesía (2006), and Ciudad de Granada Federico García Lorca (2009). His collected works have been published in Somos el tiempo que nos queda (2004 y 2007). He later published a volume of poems, La noche no tiene paredes (2009). He is the author of several novels: Dos días de setiembre (1962), Ágata ojo de gato (1974), Toda la noche se oyeron pasar pájaros (1981), En la casa del padre (1988), and Campo de Agramante (1992). He has also published two volumes of his memoirs: Tiempo de guerras perdidas (1995) and La costumbre de vivir (2001).

HARDCOVER. 14 × 19,5 cm, 56 pp.
Contains 1 CD
ISBN: 978-84-937474-8-0