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Leopoldo Mar\u00eda Panero<\/a><\/h1>\n

Translated by Arturo Mantec\u00f3n<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Death of Poetry<\/b><\/h3>\n

ISBN:\u00a09781956921366<\/span><\/p>\n

(pbk., 326 pages, 7×10 inches)<\/p>\n

(February, 2025)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n

Leopoldo Mar\u00eda Panero, one of the most influential poets of 20th century Spain, was born in 1948 in Madrid to Leopoldo Panero, who was one of the favored poets of Franco\u2019s Fascist regime. Leopoldo Mar\u00eda showed precocious talent from an early age and also soon rebelled against his parents\u2019 politics, even serving a brief jail sentence in 1965 for participation in a communist-backed demonstration.<\/p>\n

Because his mother observed signs of what she called schizophrenia, and because she thought his homosexuality (which became apparent during his stay in jail) might be \u201ccured,\u201d she put him under psychiatric care, including electroshock treatments, an experience that would haunt him the rest of his life, which he would spend in and out of various asylums and institutions.<\/p>\n

Despite the trauma inflicted by the institutions, he went on to write dozens of well-respected books of poetry, fiction, essays, very few of which have been translated into English. He died, just as interest in his work was enjoying a resurgence, in 2014.<\/p>\n

(Adapted from the Introduction by Arturo Mantec\u00f3n.)<\/p>\n

\n

The poetry is tremendous. Any person concerned with the human condition must read Panero. With maturity, humility, and courage, Mantec\u00f3n has rendered Panero\u2019s poetry in an English that reverberates with equal vitality. His is the prophetic voice of the Decadents whose songs of decay, hypocrisy, and moral corruption are called ravings by those who don\u2019t heed their warning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Lucina Schell, author of Reading in Translation<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Wretchedness and grace, clarity, madness, Panero\u2019s world is our world, his pained (soul) pilgrimages become daggers and serpents against us. What kind of poet bears this? Who can survive and live writing such satanic, angelic verse? Panero\u2019s vision is breathtaking, sublime, horrifying. Art Mantec\u00f3n\u2019s superb translations brilliantly release that extraordinary and furious voice into the Anglophone world. Rejoice. Beware.<\/p>\n

\u2014Mark Statman,<\/a> author of Hechizo<\/i> and Volverse \/ Volver<\/i><\/p>\n

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Documentary film on Panero (in Spanish),\u00a0The Disenchantment<\/em>, by Jaime Chavarri, at Internet Archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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