Cartas a Montserrat

Cincuenta días y quinientas noches: Diario de una reina con corona es una recopilación de poemas donde su autora se abre literalmente en canal para describir, de un modo rotundo y sincero, los sentimientos que la asaltan en medio de la pandemia que asola al mundo y durante los cincuenta días de confinamiento ocurridos en España desde marzo del 2020 a mayo del mismo año. La obra explora sentimientos e ideas, una a una, mientras realiza un explosivo camino de descubrimiento personal, amoroso y anímico envuelto en unas circunstancias extremas. Escritos a modo de diario con un estilo...

Tantos cantos... e ainda há tanto a cantar... Tantas estrelas, tantas marés, tantas musas, tantos amores... E mais que nunca é precisa cantar, como disse Vinicius de Morais, o poeta maior, pois eis que o mundo se vestiu de técnica, de matéria, de egoísmo e de desamor. Após tantas lutas, tantas estradas caminhadas, tantos mares navegados, o porto seguro que pensávamos encontrar desfaz-se na mesquinhez de tantos que passam pela vida sem ter olhos para ver o encanto que existe em cada novo jasmim que floresce, em cada novo amor que acontece, em cada sonho que renasce e, principalmente,...

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...

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...