Vicente Aleixandre: completed and vindicated

The Madrid headquarters of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RAE) have been the place chosen for the presentation of Vicente Aleixandre’s Poesía completa (Complete Poetry) (Lumen).

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Sevillian writer's Nobel Prize, this new edition intends to pay homage to one of the great poets of serene contemplation. "For the Academy, it is an honor and a matter of great pride to be able to celebrate a writer of his caliber. Aleixandre is modernity," said José María Merino, who served as master of ceremonies in place of the director of the RAE, Darío Villanueva, who could not attend. Vicente Aleixandre was, in essence, one of the greatest poets of love. His whole poetry is, in his own words, "an aspiration to light," but an aspiration that has roots in the love of nature and in the most cosmic dimension of the human being. Everything he wrote was a fruit born of the most profound depths of his life experience. As he himself came to say: "To lie is the only thing that poetry cannot be forced to do."

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