El amigo de mi hermano y otros cuentos

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...

"A work of poetry, which Pedro Lopez Adorno described as ""a legion of images, a lyric memoir peopled by remembrances, reflections, struggles, uncertainties, nostalgia and irony."""

"Esta es la fórmula poética más característica y al mismo tiempo más completa de Maria Teodora Miclea. Su secreto no está en la metáfora sino en el ritmo. Un ritmo especial, interior, que da sentido a todo lo afirmado anteriormente y que Maria demuestra dominar sorprendentemente bien. Es lo que lleva imperceptiblemente, pero también inevitablemente, hacia un significado profundo. Este ritmo, esta cadencia, se repite en casi todos los poemas, pero no como signo de pobreza sino como indicador de un muy definido estilo propio". Prof. Dra. Ileana Bucurenciu Con sobriedad y creativas...

Excerpt from Romancero de Pedro de Padilla De tu esfuerzo y tu fé sencilla y pura, Que aunque la vida en condicion pusieras, A valer á estas tristes acudieras. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or...