I Have Lots of Heart

by Hernandez, Miguel; Share, Don

• ISBN13: 9781852243326
• ISBN10: 1852243325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

Deeply admired by poets far more familiar to us, from Garcia Lorca to William Carlos Williams, the poems of Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), beam with a gentleness of heart. After fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, he was imprisoned in Franco's jails, where he continued to write until his death from untreated TB in 1942: he was thirty-one. Miguel Hernandez is one of the most revered poets in the Spanish-speaking world.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
Preface	p. 15
A man-eating knife	p. 37
Lightning that never ends	p. 39
Your heart is a frozen orange	p. 41
You threw me a bitter lemon	p. 41
Like the bull	p. 43
Gardeners go down the path	p. 43
Death, in a bull's pelt	p. 45
Elegy	p. 47
Bloody fate	p. 51
I have lots of heart	p. 57
Sitting upon the dead	p. 63
Sweat	p. 67
Hunger	p. 69
First song	p. 75
Soldiers and the snow	p. 75
The wounded man	p. 79
Letter	p. 83
Train of the wounded	p. 87
18 July 1936-18 July 1938	p. 91
Last song	p. 93
Child of light and shadow	p. 97
To my son	p. 105
The world is as it appears	p. 109
The cemetery lies near	p. 111
You were like the young fig tree	p. 111
Love rose up between us	p. 113
Humming eyelashes	p. 113
All the houses are eyes	p. 115
In the depths of man	p. 115
The last corner	p. 117
To sing	p. 119
Before hatred	p. 122
After love	p. 127
War	p. 131
War	p. 135
Child of the night	p. 135
Imagination's tomb	p. 139
Ascension of the broom	p. 141
Eternal darkness	p. 141
Lullaby of the onion	p. 145
Last lines	p. 151
Letter to Hernandez	p. 154
Conversation with Robert Bly	p. 155
First impression of Miguel Hernandez	p. 157
Meeting Miguel Hernandez	p. 159
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