Legacies
by Padilla, HebertoFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1984-05-01
Publisher(s): Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Summary
Legacies is the author's own selection from his work, and represents the many facets of Padilla's art: his lyrical love poems, his almost Audenesque meditations on other poets, his deceptively simple verses about history.
Author Biography
Heberto Padilla and his wife, poet Belkis Cuza Male, divided their time between Princeton, New Jersey, and Madrid, Spain.
Table of Contents
| El que regresa a las regiones claras | p. 2 |
| Returning to bright places | p. 3 |
| Pero el amor | p. 4 |
| But love | p. 5 |
| A Belkis, cuando pinta | p. 6 |
| To Belkis, when she paints | p. 7 |
| Entre marzo y abril esta mi mes mas cruel | p. 8 |
| Between March and April is my cruelest month | p. 9 |
| La bella durmiente | p. 14 |
| The sleeping beauty | p. 15 |
| Una muchacha se esta muriendo entre mis brazos | p. 16 |
| A girl is dying in my arms | p. 17 |
| En lugar del amor | p. 18 |
| In love's place | p. 19 |
| Para aconsejar a una dama | p. 20 |
| Advice to a lady | p. 21 |
| La companera de viaje | p. 22 |
| The traveling companion | p. 23 |
| En tiempos dificiles | p. 24 |
| In trying times | p. 25 |
| Pausa | p. 26 |
| Calm | p. 27 |
| Un restaurante al aire libre en el otono de Budapest | p. 28 |
| A sidewalk cafe: Budapest, autumn | p. 29 |
| El abedul de hierro | p. 30 |
| The birch tree of iron | p. 31 |
| Cancion de la torre Spaskaya | p. 34 |
| Song of the Spasskaya tower | p. 35 |
| Los enamorados del bosque Izmailovo | p. 36 |
| The lovers of the Izmailovo forest | p. 37 |
| Ultima primavera en Moscu | p. 40 |
| The last spring in Moscow | p. 41 |
| Oracion para el fin de siglo | p. 42 |
| A prayer for the end of the century | p. 43 |
| La sombrilla nuclear | p. 44 |
| Nuclear umbrella | p. 45 |
| Tecnicas de acoso | p. 54 |
| Techniques of pursuit | p. 55 |
| Via Condotti | p. 58 |
| Via Condotti | p. 59 |
| Lamentacion | p. 60 |
| Lamentation | p. 61 |
| Una pregunta a la escuela de Frankfurt | p. 62 |
| A question for the Frankfurt School | p. 63 |
| Los alquimistas | p. 64 |
| The alchemists | p. 65 |
| Historia | p. 66 |
| History | p. 67 |
| Sintesis | p. 68 |
| Synthesis | p. 69 |
| Viejos oleos romanos | p. 70 |
| Old Roman oils | p. 71 |
| Naturaleza muerta | p. 72 |
| Nature morte | p. 73 |
| Los ultimos recuerdos de Sir Walter Raleigh en la Torre de Londres | p. 74 |
| The last thoughts of Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower of London | p. 75 |
| Infancia de William Blake | p. 78 |
| The childhood of William Blake | p. 79 |
| Wellington contempla en su jardin un retrato de Byron | p. 90 |
| Wellington in his garden contemplating a portrait of Byron | p. 91 |
| Pico de la Mirandola | p. 92 |
| Pico della Mirandola | p. 93 |
| Ana Frank | p. 94 |
| Anne Frank | p. 95 |
| En verano | p. 96 |
| In summer | p. 97 |
| Homenaje | p. 98 |
| Homage | p. 99 |
| El hallazgo | p. 100 |
| The find | p. 101 |
| Album para ser destruido por los indiferentes | p. 102 |
| Album to be destroyed by those who don't care | p. 103 |
| Herencias | p. 108 |
| Legacies | p. 109 |
| Casas | p. 110 |
| Houses | p. 111 |
| Andando | p. 112 |
| Walking | p. 113 |
| Campo sembrado | p. 114 |
| Planted field | p. 115 |
| Eso que va flotando sobre las aguas | p. 116 |
| That thing bobbing on the waters | p. 117 |
| Con solo abrir los ojos | p. 118 |
| Just by opening your eyes | p. 119 |
| Retrato del poeta como un duende joven | p. 120 |
| Portrait of the artist as a young wizard | p. 121 |
| Nota | p. 124 |
| Note | p. 125 |
| El monologo de Quevedo | p. 126 |
| The monologue of Quevedo | p. 127 |
| La aparicion de Gongora | p. 128 |
| The apparition of Gongora | p. 129 |
| A Pablo Armando Fernandez | p. 132 |
| To Pablo Armando Fernandez | p. 133 |
| El relevo | p. 134 |
| Relief | p. 135 |
| A ratos esos malos pensamientos | p. 136 |
| Occasional wicked thoughts | p. 137 |
| Mis amigos no deberian exigirme | p. 138 |
| My friends shouldn't | p. 139 |
| Dicen los viejos bardos | p. 140 |
| According to the old bards | p. 141 |
| Solo entre caminantes | p. 142 |
| Only among walkers | p. 143 |
| El hombre junto al mar | p. 144 |
| The man by the sea | p. 145 |
| Paisaje con un hombre y un perro | p. 146 |
| Landscape with a man and a dog | p. 147 |
| A veces me zambullo | p. 148 |
| Sometimes I plunge | p. 149 |
| Paisajes | p. 150 |
| Landscapes | p. 151 |
| Autorretrato del otro | p. 152 |
| Self-portrait of the other | p. 153 |
| Por la borda | p. 156 |
| Overboard | p. 157 |
| Cancion del navegante | p. 158 |
| Song of the navigator | p. 159 |
| Cancion del juglar | p. 160 |
| Song of the juggler | p. 161 |
| Flotan las boyas | p. 162 |
| Buoys | p. 163 |
| Cancion de un lado a otro | p. 164 |
| Song from one side to the other | p. 165 |
| Cancion de las nodrizas | p. 166 |
| Song of the nannies | p. 167 |
| Mirala tenderse | p. 168 |
| Odalisque | p. 169 |
| A una piedad | p. 172 |
| On a regret | p. 173 |
| Don Gustavo | p. 174 |
| Don Gustavo | p. 175 |
| El regalo | p. 176 |
| The gift | p. 177 |
| En los poemas | p. 178 |
| Within the poem | p. 179 |
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