Written while the Spanish poet was a student at Columbia University from June 1929 to March 1930; plus 'The Poet Arrives in Havana', 'A Poet in New York' (a lecture given in Madrid in 1932), and 'The Poet Writes to His Family from New York and Havana' (55pp.); parallel Spanish English text for all the poems; translation by Greg Simon and Steven F. White; edited, introduction, notes by Christopher Maurer.
