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Lux in Tenebris (Luz en [medio] de las Tinieblas) es una obra del "fusco cenobita con cáustica filosofía y prosapia maracaibera": Derbut, de mote prefijado Lushmore; cuyo estilo responde a la corriente neovanguardista pues, entra las contemporáneas formas del quehacer literario, representa una inédita e innovadora manera de expresión escrita hasta ahora desconocida. Está compuesta por una serie de narrativas de contenido filosófico expresadas de forma poética, a este arte literario Derbut lo denomina Khimáirico; artificio constituido por Khimairas (del griego Χίμαιρας) o...

Spiritual and possessing a devout wisdom, this masterpiece of poetry of the Persian Sufi tradition addresses some of the most fundamental human preoccupations—including the relationship between earthly and divine love—and argues that not only is God the beloved of humankind, but that humankind is God's beloved. Espiritual y poseyendo una sabiduría devota, esta obra maestra de la poesía de la tradición sufi persiana, abarca algunas de las preocupaciones humanas más fundamentales—incluyendo la relación entre el amor humano y el divino—y sostiene, no sólo que Dios es el Amado del...

Natalia Toledo'sThe Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems of love and loss the world's population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma.The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico's highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004. FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!

Quan Barry embarks on discursive inquiry in Controvertibles. She lifts familiar cultural moments out of their usual settings and repositions them in front of new, disparate backdrops, endeavoring to understand the essence of modern experience. Doug Flutie's famous Hail Mary pass and Rutger Hauer's role in Blade Runner are contextualized within the Tibetan Book of the Dead, while an ultrasound reading acts as a meditation on the limits of critical theory. Samantha Smith, the Shroud of Turin, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Beamon's world-record-setting long jump, the largo from Handel's Xerxes, the...