Casi Toda La Musica/Almost All The Music

Devoted to musical themes, this newfacing-page English and Spanishtranslated collectionfrom one of the 20th-century’s major Spanish poets makes evident the author’s encyclopedic musicalknowledge, as well as his deepempathy for the forgotten and downtrodden. Wary of empty abstractions and political ideologies, concern for the the concrete personal and social experience of ordinary people shines throughout these works, which are complemented by a fine lyricism that endows these poems with literary excellence.