Gil de Biedma JaimeJaime Gil de Biedma is widely recognized as Spain's finest poet since García Lorca. Born in 1929, his childhood and almost entire adult life were bracketed by the bloody civil war and Franco's fascist state. Yet rooted in Barcelona, he managed to becme a cosmopolitan poet, lived as a clandestine leftist and gay man, and published three books of poetry under strict censorship. His poetry is collected in the anthology Las personas del verbo (1975). He died of AIDS in 1990, and since the publication of his diaries, he has become the icon of a passionate literary cult. Read More Read Less