The Last Days of Alicante

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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 p oems 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. Show more