Poemas impersonales

At the end of 1912 Juan Ramón Jiménez returned to Madrid after six years of retirement in Moguer, carrying in his luggage a good number of unpublished books, of which he will only present a brief sample in his select Poesías chosen (1917) and in the later and widely spread Second Poetic Anthology (1922). Soledad González Ródenas brings together in this edition the texts belonging to Impersonal Poems, one of the most unique titles that, after her death, remained unpublished in their entirety. Composed for the most part in 1911 and revised several times throughout the poet's career, more than thirty compositions hitherto unknown are still preserved in his archives. The collection of poems begins the sober and concise aesthetics that he will later call "naked poetry", and is clearly distinguished from the rest of his work. JRJ collects in it a corpus that combines personal expression with accents that are not strictly his own: "the least mine that is possible". Thus he confirms a peculiar unfolding of identity, capable of developing tones of diverse inspiration and personality variations with which the poet configures diffuse heteronyms of himself. Never published book in its entirety by the greatest Spanish poet of the 20th century, with more than thirty unpublished poems.