Amor Sin Tiempo

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...

Vertebré el desfile de estas visiones con los sentidos abiertos, trazando una línea que incluyó el pasado, el presente y el futuro de esta porción de cielo en la que me correspondió inventar un himno. Vencí la gravedad del vacío con palabras sin peso que contienen en su fondo, en su exégesis, el ciego dibujo de las inmediaciones, contenido inefable del texto que flota en el espacio: el mundo, único e irremplazable instrumento musical.

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...

Los poemas de este libro, por lo demás, están en el tono de todo lo que vivió Hughes. Vemos que hoy su poesía, como ha sucedido con la de otros grandes poetas, ha alcanzado la universalidad desde su particularidad. Su poesía es para todo lector que se acerque a ella, compromiso existencial, y con una calidad concentrada. — José Vicente Anaya —