Tema y variación: hombres a los cuarenta

Abstract

In the Western tradition, many poets have taken advantage of their arrival to a certain age to write confessions or meditations on their life and experience. This minimal anthology offers, both in their original English language and in translation into Spanish, poems by Donald Justice, Joseph Brodsky, and Derek Walcott in which the fortieth birthday is seized as an opportunity to gauge in lyrical terms the resignation imposed by maturity, the penuries of exile, and the persevering commitment to the art of poetry.