ETERNIDADES / ETERNITIES
Forthcoming, Bitter Oleander Press, Spring 2026
ETERNIDADES/ETERNITIES (1916-1917), Juan Ramón Jiménez, Bilingual Edition, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by A.F. Moritz
Written in 1916 and 1917, published in 1918, Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Eternities is one of the foundational books of modern Spanish literature and of the modernist period. A.F. Moritz presents a masterful translation of Jiménez’s landmark collection.
“Juan Ramón’s first trip to America (1916) and his interest in English-language poetry, especially Emily Dickinson, profoundly marked his work during the period in which he wrote Eternidades (1918)…a milestone work in Juan Ramón’s journey from what was called ‘pure poetry’ to what he later termed, in the famous poem 5 of Eternidades, ‘naked poetry’.”
— Alberto Blanco
“Eternities is one of the very best translations of any of the great Spanish-language poets. A.F. Moritz has created a unique, entrancing English that conveys Juan Ramón Jiménez’s major 1918 book Eternidades in all its directness and profundity. Here in Spanish and English are this great poet’s dynamic ecstasy, his restless searching and constant creation, his combination of complexity with an apparent simplicity which, paradoxically, is at last a true simplicity.”
— Homero Aridjis