Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda

"Written in Water combines Cernuda's two volumes of prose poems, Ocnos and Variaciones sobre tema mexicano (Variations on a Mexican Theme), into a single book as the author intended but never lived to see. Cernuda explores various scenes and moments and ideas from different periods of his life, beginning with childhood in Seville and proceeding through his exile to his first encounter with Mexico, where he found a comforting resemblance to his lost Andalucia. This book amounts to a kind of autobiography, the chronicle of a geographic and spiritual journey in the form of evocations, vignettes, and reflections."--BOOK JACKET.