El mundo es un instrumento musical

The Martin Fierro, the classic argentine poem, has been the subject of studies and discussions ever since the issuing of its first part edition -el gaucho Martin Fierro- in 1873, and there have been many ensuing editions, including some still available, to prove it. This new edition of both parts aims to render a balanced startpoint to the study of the literary piece. This edition is based on the original texts: El gaucho Martin Fierro Imprenta de La Pampa, 1872, and La vuelta de Martin Fierro Libreria del Plata, 1879, and includes no less than 535 lexicographic notes, conveniently placed at...

Poems deal with Mexican American culture, mythology, and history, and evoke the author's impressions of the Texas landscape

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!

La poesía nos ofrece unos textos auténticos para la enseñanza de una lengua extranjera y nos permite desarrollar y practicar en clase la competencia comunicativa, concibiendo la literatura como un acto de comunicación. Tiene una ventaja sobre los otros géneros literarios por su brevedad y su música. En la poesía encontramos un universo de posibilidades, ambigüedades, metáforas, rimas y repeticiones que nos pueden ayudar en la enseñanza de una lengua extranjera. Este universo de sonidos hay que explotarlo porque encierra un gran potencial didáctico. Edito este libro con el...