Book record
Times Alone
Antonio Machado
Translated from Spanish by Robert Bly
Times Alone, by Antonio Machado, is a selected volume from Spain, translated by Robert Bly, published by Wesleyan University Press. It is a Spanish selected volume by Antonio Machado where solitude, time, landscape, and walking thought gather into a quiet lyric tradition. Machado's poems often feel like paths one takes with no witness except weather, memory, and the old music of consciousness moving across a place. I would read this first for the pressure of image and cadence rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The useful description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: enough context to orient the shelf, then enough mystery to let the poems keep their own weather. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Spain. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local speech, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Spain