"This is a very valuable book Dozens of poems are here that have never been translated into English before, and I think Berg and Maloney have done beautifully transferring Juan Ramon's enthusiastic calm from Spanish to English. Terrific."--Robert Bly
"As he observes metaphysical somersaults of sea and land, Juan Ramon is the master of replete simplicity. 'A steel sea' pops up on a 'hard flat field/of exhausted mines/in a devastation of ruin.' Or, like Emily Dickinson's 'hope falls down a hill, ' Jimenez has, 'Hope, a seagull, / alights here and there.' The utter nakedness of...
"This is a very valuable book Dozens of poems are here that have never been translated into English before, and I think Berg and Maloney have done...
Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jimenez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements the wellsprings of any kind of creation are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret.A treasure for poets and writers, "The Complete Perfectionist "includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer...
Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning te...
