Tag: Luis Cernuda

Luis Cernuda: Desire, Exile & the Poetry of a Life Apart

Born in Seville on September 21, 1902, Luis Cernuda became one of the most distinctive voices of Spain’s Generation of ’27, a poet whose work continually circles the distance between the life we desire and the reality we are given. Love, beauty, loneliness, homosexuality, social judgment, exile, memory, Spain, youth, aging, and the longing for …

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