El hundimiento / The Sinking
Poetry , 2015
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Pages: 148
17th Generación del 27 International Poetry Prize
The Sinking is Manuel Vilas’s most personal and devastating book of poems. The poems in The Sinking lay bare an autobiographical and existential crisis. Yet the representation of contemporary Spain—with all its political and economic troubles—is also ever-present.
As always in Manuel Vilas’s literary vision, the exploration of the material world and the tensions between wealth and poverty play a central role in this poetry. The creation of mysterious, allegorical characters is another of the book’s most remarkable achievements.