Chile en haiku

"This book examines the work of Guillermo Carnero, one of Spain's most important contemporary poets, in the context of the critical theories developed in the West after World War II that inform all of Carnero's writing." "Previous critical studies have tried to link Carnero's poetry to that of other novisimo poets within the narrow confines of Spanish poetics and literary history. This study seeks to move beyond the limiting perspective of the Spanish generational paradigm."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Francisco Brines parece enviarnos estos poemas desde una orilla apartada, en la luz otoñal de un luminoso y melancólico atardecer, como ante la inminencia de un último viaje. En el recuerdo se encienden destellos de una fugaz felicidad pasada, del paraíso de la infancia y de la plenitud del ser en una existencia remota, cenizas, casi siempre, de una pasión ya extinguida. Cual dolorosa filigrana, envuelve sus versos la presencia implacable de la muerte, el sentimiento de una despedida que, pese a todo, quiere ser gozosa y serena, porque gozoso y sereno se nos aparece aquello que está en...

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...

A ti, donde quiera que estés, creador de pasiones prueba de ilusiones. Tu alma los escribió mi mano tan sólo los plasmó. Hoy te pertenecen, porque reguardecen eso único que llamamos AMOR.