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Couplets on the death of his father is the masterpiece of Jorge Manrique and has made him one of the essential authors of Spanish poetry. Conceived as an elegy, medieval elements are combined with others that announce the emerging Renaissance. And, what is most significant, they are a celebration of life amidst the Quattrocento tradition of death.

No voy a catalogar este libro como poemario, nada mucho más lejos de la inspiración que me lleva a la lucha mente-cuerpo que es este fluir de pensamientos en estado puro. Cada cual que saque el mensaje que más le convenga. Animo a quien me lea a probar esa guerra entre lo relativamente correcto y lo que de verdad queremos escribir. Lo que vas a leer es mi propia lucha contra la indomable libertad de las palabras.

el escritor es origen, motor y producto de su propia creación, la cual, si no alcanza la nota debida, puede llegar a devorarlo.

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...