“The Ship, Solid and Black”
Juan Ramón Jiménez, “‘The Ship, Solid and Black’” from Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems. Translation copyright © 1973 by Robert Bly. Reprinted with the permission of Beacon Press.
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Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez 1881–1958
POET’S REGION Spain
Subjects Activities, Travels & Journeys, Nature, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
A prolific Spanish poet, editor, and critic, Juan Ramón Jiménez won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956. He was born in Moguer i Andalusia, an area that he depicted in Platero y Yo (Platero and I, 1914) a collection of prose poems about a man and his donkey. Jiménez’s other books of poetry include Elejías puras (Pure Elegies, 1908), La soledad sonora (Sonorous Solitude, 1911), Poesía (Poetry, 1923), and Belleza (Beauty, . . .
Poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez
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SUBJECT Activities, Travels & Journeys, Nature, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
POET’S REGION Spain
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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