Carmen Conde: Politics and Poetry from the 1940s to the Transition.

The Spanish poet Carmen Conde’s literary career spanned seven decades, from the nineteen twenties to the nineteen eighties. Resident in Spain throughout her life, a small but significant proportion of her poetic output is political, beginning with her Civil War collection, Mientras los hombres mueren, and building, in short bursts of commentary, throughout the Franco era and into the Transition to Democracy. These occasional poems display a consistent concern for social justice and the hard-won conviction that war is always futile. No longer overlooked, her authoritative poetic voice is now receiving appropriate recognition from a new generation of readers.