Absolute Solitude by Dulce María Loynaz

Absolute Solitude is a comprehensive selection of the prose poems from Dulce María Loynaz’s Poems Without Names. First published in Spain in 1953, Poems Without Names achieved both critical and popular success. Gabriela Mistral called them “pure condensations of poetry, the pure bone of the affair: it is interior poetry.” Absolute Solitude also contains a selection of prose poems from Autumn Melancholy, published posthumously in 1997. This is the first major selection dedicated to Dulce María Loynaz’s prose poetry, and it brings to American readers one of Cuba’s most celebrated poets, a poet Juan Ramón Jiménez described as “archaic and new, a phosphorescent reality of her own incredibly human poetry, her fresh language, tender, weightless, rich in abandon.”