Poetry
Concierto de amor y otros poemas
Not translated into English
Esther de Cáceres · 1951
Synopsis
The book opens with a portrait and brings together free-verse poems, mixing lines of eleven and seven syllables, in which the speaking voice looks in the visible world for the way to God. Fire, ivy, rain, the fountain whose water sings, the wind, the clouds, the tree and the angels recur in them; two joined hands, close and yet apart, speak of a love that is also friendship. After a period of melancholy, the tone turns towards joy, and the mystical impulse keeps an almost sensual attachment to life.
Context
A first Concierto de amor appeared in 1944; the 1951 volume, published by Losada and printed in Buenos Aires, enlarges it with further poems. It is preceded by a prologue dated Petrópolis, March 1945, and signed by Gabriela Mistral, Nobel laureate in literature, who likens the author to the Christian mystics and notes the “uruguayidad” of her verse. The book follows Los cielos (1935), Espejo sin muerte (1941) and Mar en el mar (1947).
Who it is for
A poetry collection in Spanish, mystical in inspiration, in free verse; no French translation.
Prizes and reception
An encyclopaedia singles it out among its author's books; it carries a preface by a poet who won the Nobel Prize.
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