Mar a Baranda and Paul Hoover present revitalized translations of some of the most beloved Poems of the Golden Age of Spanish literature.
Erotically charged, initially scandalous, his mystical poetry engages with the jour.
In 1578, during months of imprisonment for his reformist beliefs, San Juan de la Cruz composed a series of narrative Poems inspired by the Biblical Song of Songs--and, the story goes, a popular love song overheard from his cramped cell--that take God as the beloved.
Mar a Baranda and Paul Hoover present revitalized translations of some of the most beloved Poems of the Golden Age of Spanish literature