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A debut collection of poems in which Spain's troubled past mixes with its everyday routines, sights and sounds. The legacy of the country's civil war is all around, especially in poems dedicated to Miguel Hernández, a poor, self-taught goatherd from Alicante province who became a renowned poet, and died in extraordinarily harsh conditions in Franco's gulag. -- Books Council of Wales

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The past is never far away in this debut collection. There are tender love poems mixed with snapshots of Spanish life – a cup of coffee in a bar, a sudden downpour, adoration of the Virgin at a fiesta, children playing in a plaza, the bustle of a restaurant. But the most powerful poems are those in which McGuire conjures up the tragic events of the last century. The title of the collection is a clue to one of them. -- Publisher: Culture Matters

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