Alberti, Rafael / Murillo, John (tr.): Concerning the Angels

Four Way Books, paperback Translated by: John Murillo Publication Date: March 15, 2025 Publisher Marketing: In his first full-length translation, celebrated poet John Murillo (Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Four Quartets Prize) brings Rafael Alberti's Concerning the Angels ( Sobre los ángeles) to an English-reading audience. Murillo's foreword introduces Sobre los ángeles as "a monument--albeit a severely neglected monument--of early twentieth-century literature." Despite having "penned a masterwork of social and psychic malaise as deserving as any of its place in the global canon," Alberti has disappeared into relative obscurity among readers of English language poetry, and Murillo's crucial intervention allows the Spanish poet's voice to once again echo prophetically from this book's opening poem, "Paradise Lost" "throughout the centuries, / through the nothingness of the world, / I, without sleep, search for you." Insofar as the speaker addresses a figure named Shadow, h