With an insightful introduction by Thomas Moore, this volume presents
the wisdom and philosophy of one of Spain's most important poets. Born
in 1875, Machado, along with Juan Ramon Jimenez and Miquel de Unamuno,
formed the famed generation of 1898, which ushered in a new Spanish
poetics. In this series of brief poems, Machado utilizes traditional
Spanish verse forms to create a wide-ranging collection.
Machado, in these Sappho-like fragments, takes us down not only the road
less traveled but the road not seen, where transformation and
transfiguration come not from self-made millions but from changing 'love
into theology'--Thomas Rain Crowe