Antonio Machado (18751939) is Spains master poet, the explorer of dream and landscape, and of consciousness below language. Widely regarded as the greatest twentieth century poet who wrote in Spanish, Machadolike his contemporary Rilkeis intensely introspective and meditative. In this collection, the unparalleled translator Willis Barnstone, returns to the poet with whom he first started his distinguished career, offering a new bilingual edition which provides a sweeping assessment of Machados work. In addition, includes a reminiscence by Nobel Laureate Juan Ramn Jimnez and a foreword by John Dos Passos.Absolute faith. We neither are nor will be.

Our whole life is borrowed