I have read this book in spanish language. As the "title" says, Salinas have a sort of deep and strong writing. You may ask: in love poems? And i have to answer: yes, in love poems. The spanish language has tracks that are dificult to explain. Salinas let you travel through this language guidelines making the words fly and flow by itself. It's impossible to properly describe this "feeling". If you like jazz you must hear the music to understand it. Nobody can tell you this "feel" using words...

This is a wonderful book. David Lee Garrison is a graceful, unfailingly accurate translator, capturing the wit and wisdom of one of Pedro Salinas's best collections. In a prologue, Salinas writes that "poetry, like love, either conquers or ceases to exist." This time it conquers!

The art of translation is on full view here in David Lee Garrison's subtle and rigorous explication of Salinas's work. Here are poems of surprise, of emotional and intellectual daring, of unearthly beauty. This is a book that deserves a wide readership, both for the brilliance of its poems and the pellucid quality of their translations.