"[Guillén] is an extraordinary poet of the speaking, singing voice. His poems reanimate the urgent intensities of Andalusian life and portray the tragic magnificence of human determination and perseverance. Sandy McKinney has brought this great poet into passionate, lucid American English for the first time." --Reginald Gibbons, author of Sweetbitter
"A gifted poet in her own right, McKinney has given Guillén a passionate, spare, clean, lyrical English voice. Guillén has said, 'I am after what is real, specific, concrete, alive,' and McKinney has delivered it to us, undiminished in its passage into fresh, splendid English poetry."
--Robert D. Richardson, author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
"This first book-length English translation is a welcome introduction to a heretofore neglected and underrated Spanish poet." --Library Journal
