{"title":"Luis García Montero","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-world-so-often-book-luis-montero-9781844719037","title":"The World So Often","description":"Luis Garcia Montero (Granada, 1958) is one of the most read and influential Spanish writers today. He is an essayist, fiction writer, journalist, professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada, and, principally, a poet. He has received numerous important honors, like the National Poetry Prize (1994) and the National Critic's Prize (2003), both in Spain, and the Poets of the Latin World Prize (2010), in Mexico. He has published eleven books of poetry, represented in The World So Often, his first anthology in English.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49597896229137,"sku":"GOR013393261","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054861386001,"sku":"NIN9781844719037","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52335963570449,"sku":"NLS9781844719037","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1844719030.jpg?v=1750767559"},{"product_id":"one-year-and-three-months-book-king-katie-9781969317026","title":"One Year and Three Months","description":"For nearly three decades the acclaimed Spanish poet Luis García Montero and his wife, the best-selling Spanish novelist Almudena Grandes, formed an extraordinary partnership grounded in their shared passion for literature, political activism and for each other. When Grandes died in November 2021, just one year and three months after being diagnosed with breast cancer, it was front page news across Spain and the Spanish-speaking world. Hundreds of her grieving fans and friends crowded into Madrid's civil cemetery to pay their respects as she was buried. Her husband, a portrait of loss and pain, laid a copy of Completely Friday, his first book of poetry dedicated to her, atop her casket as it was lowered into the grave.  \nGarcía Montero wrote this collection of poetry during his wife's illness and just after her death. The poems narrate a journey of love and loss, caring and suffering, pain and resilience. And ultimately of acceptance, gratitude and hope as the poet looks back at those wrenching fifteen months with the profound realization that he would remember them \"as the happiest of my life.\"  \nGarcía Montero's signature style of \"poetry of experience\" is at its apex in this collection. He weaves everyday items and activities into powerful metaphors for complex ideas and emotions. Seashells, books, showers and refrigerators become symbols for mysteries, loving complicity, overwhelming grief and a nurturing home gone cold. As always, García Montero constructs his poems on the foundations of world literature, and the presence of its greats can be felt everywhere: García Lorca, Cervantes, Bécquer, Baudelaire, even W.H. Auden. At his moment of greatest loss, García Montero has produced the most powerful writing of his long career.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53037143228689,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53037143621905,"sku":"NIN9781969317026","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781969317026.jpg?v=1768762153"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/collections\/author-books-by-luis-garca-montero.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}