Adriático

Esta es una obra singular, de difícil clasificación. Una primera parte contiene poemas monovocálicos y la segunda parte, con los mismos poemas, verso por verso, se va armando un cuento corto, dando a la vez la definición de las palabras que no son de uso común y de una que otra de uso común. Yo diría que el resultado final es un género literario novedoso. Los poemas monovocálicos son aquellos en los cuales, todas las palabras utilizadas tienen la misma vocal; con la peculiaridad en este caso, de que todas las palabras utilizadas existen por lo menos en un país de habla hispana. En...

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

En su primer libro, la joven autora refleja en sus versos las diferentes etapas del amor, desde su sentimiento más bello, hasta el dolor de la incomprensión que a veces causa.

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...