Inspired by the ballads sung in the street outside the walls of the dungeon where he was imprisoned as a reformed Carmelite, Spanish Poet San Juan de la Cruz wrote a series of devotional love poems that scandalized his contemporaries and moved readers for centuries thereafter. In this inspired translation, María Baranda and Paul Hoover rediscover the spirit of these poems, each one a flame of longing, ecstasy, and love.
Inspired by the ballads sung in the street outside the walls of the dungeon where he was imprisoned as a reformed Carmelite, Spanish Poet San Juan de la Cruz wrote a series of devotional love poems that scandalized his contemporaries and moved readers for centuries thereafter. In this inspired translation, María Baranda and Paul Hoover rediscover the spirit of these poems, each one a flame of longing, ecstasy, and love.
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