Silences from the Spanish Civil War
By Jane Duran
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Jane Duran
Jane Duran was born in Cuba and raised in the USA and Chile. Selections of her poems have appeared in Poetry Introduction 8 (Faber 1993), Making for Planet Alice (Bloodaxe 1997), and Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe 2005). In 1995 Enitharmon Press published her first full collection, Breathe Now, Breathe which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Enitharmon also published four subsequent collections, including Coastal (2005) and Graceline (2010) which were both PBS Recommendations. Together with Gloria García Lorca, she translated Lorca's Gypsy Ballads (Enitharmon, 2011) and his Sonnets of Dark Love and The Tamarit Divan (Enitharmon, 2017). She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2005.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is perhaps one of the best 45 minutes I have ever spent. Truly heart-felt stuff, but never caricatured. The sentiments of grief, loss and curiosity about her father's past are palpable. The Introduction was lengthy and dense, but the poems certainly took the edge off. I read this for research purposes, since I'm writing about Jane Duran's translation of Lorca's 'Gypsy Ballads', but I would recommend it for anyone interested in war poems.
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Silences from the Spanish Civil War - Jane Duran
Jane Duran
Silences from the Spanish Civil War
First published in 2002
eBook produced 2014
by Enitharmon Press
10 Bury Place
London WC1A 2JL
www.enitharmon.co.uk
Text © Jane Duran 2002
Introduction © Paul Preston
ISBN: 9781910392027
Enitharmon Press gratefully acknowledges the
financial support of Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to the Arts Council for a Writer’s Award (1998), and to the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire for their fellowship in while this work was in progress.
‘Battle of Teruel, Winter 1937-38’ was published in La Generación del Cordero (Trilce Ediciones, 2000); and ‘Spanish Peasant Boy’ and ‘The Pyrenees’ appeared in Parents: An Anthology of Poems by Women Writers (Enitharmon Press, ).
My thanks to Kamal Ayyildiz, Heather Birrell, Cheli Durán, Rhian Gallagher, Gloria García Lorca, Mimi Khalvati and Pedro Serrano for reading drafts of the sequence at various stages and for their valuable comments; and to Ricardo Sola Buil and Alfonso Casas Ologaray for introducing me to areas in Aragón where the Civil War was fought.
I am grateful to all those who generously shared their knowledge or experience of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath with me. Among these are Francisco Ferrer Gasulla, Jesús Gómez Vera, Lala Isla, José Lamiel, David Mitchell, Joaquim Puig Ferrer, Aniceto Rallo Gasulla, Sam Russell, Javier Sanz Faure, Josep Saumell Fonoll, Tomás Segovia and Manuel Vegas Asín.
And to my husband Redha, my thanks for his encouragement and support while I was writing this book.
Jane Duran
AUTHOR'S NOTE
These poems are dedicated to the memory of my father, Gustavo Durán, who fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Republican Army between 1936 and 1939. He was born in Barcelona in 1906. He played the piano from an early age and studied music at the Real Conservatorio de Música in Madrid, and later in Paris. As a student and composer, he became close to a group of artists, writers and composers at the Residencia de Estudiantes, particularly Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti and Luis Buñuel.
On 18 July 1936, the first day of the war, my father joined the Republican Army, serving on an armoured train with railroad workers. Soon he was asked to organise a motorised battalion, and early in 1937 he formed the 69th Mixed Brigade. This brigade fought at Jarama, Guadalajara and Madrid, and at La Granja in the Segovia offensive. My father also worked closely with the Alianza de Intelectuales Antifascistas to enlist