Miguel Hernández (1910–1942) has been described by Philip Levine as “one of the great talents of the century.” At the end of the Spanish Civil War, at the height of his creative powers, he was arrested and sentenced to death by General Franco. His crime: “Poet and soldier of the mother country.” Though the sentence was eventually commuted to life imprisonment, he died three years later of tuberculosis.
Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine. His books include Squandermania (Salt Publishing, 2007), _Union _(Zoo Press, 2002), and Seneca in English (Penguin Classics, 1998); forthcoming are a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems (Faber and Faber) and Bunting’s Persia (Flood Editions). His translations of Miguel Hernàndez, collected in I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books, 1997) were awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize, the Premio Valle Inclan Prize, and the PEN/New England Discovery Award.
Share’s translation* I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems of Miguel Hernàndez* was reviewed in AGNI 48 by Reetika Vazirani.
AGNI has published the following translations:
I Have Walked Down Many Roads by Antonio Machado
After Love by Miguel Hernàndez
The Last Corner Miguel Hernàndez