Almácigo

Amparo Osorio, Blanca Luz Pullido, Ibet Cázares, Yanira Soundy, Waldina Mejía. Cinque sguardi sulla percezione del sentimento amoroso. Cinque poetesse che hanno declinato un'esperienza così universale e nel contempo così privata come l'amore, rivelandone una visione poliedrica. Amore interpretato come funzione unificante, che può manifestarsi come armonizzazione e comunione con l'altro da sé, trascendendo i limiti imposti dalla materia e diventando tramite fra realtà distinte, intersecandole e rinnovandole. Ma, anche, amore inteso come fenomeno destabilizzante, desiderio frustrato che...

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...

Principio de los árboles de Krishna Naranjo, marca dos senderos líricos que convergen en el bosque del lenguaje: por un lado, subyace una mirada crítica sobre la vida contemporánea, y, con un tono idílico, la voz poética desea un retorno a la entraña de la experiencia humana: la naturaleza que conmueve en tanto conlleva afrontar la finitud, el cuerpo, el deseo por lo desconocido. Asimismo, deambular entre los árboles implica, a la voz poética, participar de una recapitulación por la maternidad, el otro camino propuesto del libro. Pervive la memoria sobre aquellos episodios que...

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...