Celebración del poema

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

"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...

Un recull de poesies melancòliques, de salms tranquils i folklore català. Setè i últim volum de les obres complertes de Jacint Verdaguer, una de les figures més emblemàtiques i importants de la Renaixença catalana. Als seus últims anys, Verdaguer va fer les paus amb la seva pròpia fe i les poesies que es troben en aquest volum tornen a l’espiritualitat dolça de les primeres. Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902) era un capellà i va ser un dels principals impulsors de la poesia catalana del segle XIX. Amb deu anys va ingressar en un seminari, on va cursar els seus estudis eclesiàstics....

El camino del olvido He despertado al puntear el alba mi barca he preparado y mi viaje está arreglado. Ya es hora de echar mi barca por el camino del olvido, por el cual todos andaremos y que nunca hemos conocido. El viaje más grande y eterno estoy comenzando a recorrer y aun, no sé si volveré. Tan larga fue mi vida y tan corta la sentí, que en un lapso de segundo mi vida perdí. Mi cuerpo se desvaneció, ni cuenta medí y cuando lo descubrí, era demasiado tarde, para poder corregir el tiempo que perdí.