The publisher themselves notes, with regard to the book: “Through his translations, Ramón Buenaventura has long been known as one of the foremost introducers of Rimbaud into Castilian Spanish. Yet the author stands as one of the bold figures in late-century poetry.”
Facing the reactive modernity of a Spain clouded, his writing is a model of pure and unabashed vitality—a Edenic stride, a brazen vigor. Alongside the brash, glib swagger, Buenaventura the artificer, the confessed stylist of the language who loves gathering foreign words to rework them and sell them to Spanish as if they were new, offers a joyful linguistic hesitation by someone born “in a city that no longer exists / in a country that did not yet exist.”
The publication of this volume offers readers, for the first time, a modern and carefully crafted edition of the collected poetry of a uniquely unrepeatable author in our literary landscape.”
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Author: Ramón Buenaventura. Title: Maktub: ‘It Is Written’. Publisher: Ultramarinos. Sales: All Your Books.