Marinero en tierra / Sailor on Land
Poetry , 1924
Alianza
Pages: 152
Winner of the National Literature Prize in 1925, Sailor on Land is one of the fundamental milestones in the work of Rafael Alberti. This early poetry of the master from Cádiz is light, graceful, full of light and musicality, of imagined images and creatures, expressing the growing melancholy of a sea boy anchored on land. It resonates with echoes from the Romancero, Gil Vicente, and Garcilaso, to those of Rimbaud, Verlaine, and the avant-garde.