Legacies : selected poems
/ Heberto Padilla ; a bilingual edition translated by Alastair Reid and Andrew Hurley
- 1st ed
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux , 1982, c1980.
- xii, 179 p. ; 25 cm.
Translation of: Hombre junto al mar.
Legacies is the author's own selection from his work, and represents the many facets of Padilla's art: his lyrical love poems, his almost Audenesque meditations on other poets, his deceptively simple verses about history.