All of Manuel Machado’s poetry has been re-published, the poet most read by other poets

To the well-known 1993 edition, which sold out a long time ago, the publisher has added a new prologue by José Luis García Martín, .....

who has revised the volume and includes both scattered poems and ‘dissonant texts’.

José Luis García Martín, poet and professor at the University of Oviedo, asks himself a pertinent question about Manuel Machado: Is he still alive as a poet? The question points out the relevance of a work of poetry that has lingered in the background for much of the twentieth century. The reasons may be biographical, such as the long shadow of his brother, writer and emblem of the Republic and of exile; and political, given that the Sevillian poet’s prompt allegiance to Francisco Franco’s band of rebels would make him lose favor with the exiled poets, Luis Cernuda foremost among them, who dismissed his "unsubstantial and affected" style and all post-war Spanish poetry, until the Generation of ‘50, which rallied to his brother.

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