Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation)

I bought this book several years ago when I was traveling to the South of France, to the region of Collioure, and was looking for authors who wrote about the region. I bought this book and I have never stopped referring to it. Machado was a man who lived in exile from the country he loved. He was a teacher who loved the countryside and walked sometimes for hours a day. His favorite philosopher was Pythagoras, and you see an almost simplistic mathematical perspective in the way Machado seems to see the world and break it down to the most basic common denominators. Though he was well educated and a teacher, he recognized and expressed that sometimes educated people don't see what is important. He seemed to want to find a balance between the inner self and the world around him. His poems express this. These are poems to sit and ruminate on while you walk or sip a glass of wine. These are poems to cause your mind to stop running around and stop and just appreciate what's around you, or, in some cases see that life, death, love, loss, the natural world, it is all just part of the same thing.

Machado is ine of Spain's greatest. His poetry is universal and gestures at innocence, apperception, a world as quiet as a Dutch still life. Bly is a fibe poet ib his own right--this is a synergy of two poetic minds

It arrived in great condition - a great price - used and within a reasonable amount of time. No complaints.

It's hard not to have one of his poems not become one of your favorites. Only buy Bly's translation.

I haven't read all of this, but have it at hand to pick up when I'm in the mood for a little poetry. Most of the poets I read are women, and it's nice to find these lovely poems from a man's point of view. I was drawn to this because two different things I read recently quoted from one of his poems.

My dear Spanish friend Mariano Gonzales loved this man. It was his gift to me, this understanding. It is still a wonderful gift.

one night I dreamt marvelous error..... from beginning to end one can dive deeply into machado's imagery and thought. the original Spanish is alongside an English translation. good for the soul

Antonio Machado is an amazing poet, and not well known as far as I can tell. His poems of heart and vision are stunning, and Robert Bly's translations are exquisite, as usual.

Wonderful translation

The bilingual version is very nice, but there aren't the selection of poems that I thought.The parcel was on time and the packaging was good.