The Eyes Author:Don Paterson Using the work of Antonio Machado to create a new kind of poetry, Don Paterson demonstrates his own exceptional range. Dreams set down a web of paths over the dark land; a garden of grey lilies, opening in silence; a labyrinth that carries your cry for hours, and a well too deep to return it; tiny fanes to beggared gods, padlocked vaults, a lun... more »atic staircase that coils through the trees . . . Little marionettes click past with the known faces of the dead. And now, where the path suddenly flowers and turns, something dawn-cloaked, chimerical, escapes into the distance . . . -"Sleep" Antonio Machado is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century Spanish poetry, a writer whose austere musicality has been said to capture the very essence of the language. By going for as disciplined a treatment of both form and diction as Machado exhibits, Don Paterson succeeds in writing what might be called a spiritual portrait, a synthesis of his own verbal inventiveness and a sympathetic rendering of the works that inspired him. Don Paterson is a prize-winning British poet. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.« less