75 Gedichte - Poemas - Poems

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

Soledades de Góngora y Primero sueño de sor Juana son los dos grandes epítomes líricos del barroco hispano. Si bien similares en forma, sus temas no podrían ser más dispares: mientras que Góngora evoca una edad dorada "un universo bucólico idealizado", el poema de sor Juana está más emparentado con la Ilustración, es un canto al conocimiento y la ciencia. Lo más destacado de esta edición es el estudio que acompaña a cada poema: una guía de lectura para las Soledades escrita por Antonio Carreira y una invitación a la lectura del Sueño escrita por Antonio Alatorre.

Poetry. "Bennett has been the avant in avant-garde in the latter half of the 20th century with his Lost and Found Times, one of the great 'small press poetry rags' of all time, and then through his Luna Bisonte Prods press. OLVIDOS ('Memories'; though the word also and literally means 'things forgotten') is quite possibly his masterpiece. 339 pages of zany often inarticulate expositions of a kind of lunar madness that can only be the work of the descendent of such poets as Vicente Huidobro and Guillaume Apollinaire. There is most likely something for everyone here from minimalist visual...

Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words is Lucha CorpiÍs pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in Spanish and expertly translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, the poems fairly bloom off the page in a display of lyric virtuosity. Corpi is the first of the Mexican American poets to explore through deeply personal and intimate feelings potentially explosive political topics, transculturation, the role of women, her commitment to social change, and the grand themes of love and death. Highly sophisticated, enchanting, and well...