El sexo de las estrellas

Cómo decir deseo es un poemario que intenta responder la pregunta “¿quién soy?” partiendo de una dialéctica del deseo. Se trata de una obra que pone en cuestión los conceptos tradicionales de identidad, amor y sexualidad tal como los ha definido el patriarcado, valiéndose para ello de una lírica profusa en imágenes, así como un fuerte tono autobiográfico, con versos de largo aliento y un imaginario sentimental contemporáneo.Esta obra aporta, además, una formulación del amor en clave lgbt —concretamente lésbica— que llena un vacío frecuente tanto por su temática como...

The messages of support and inspiration in this book are comforting reminders that with self-confidence and personal strength, hope is always near, and brighter days are soon to come.

Known primarily for his poetry of social protest Chicano poet Alurista moves in a new direction in Z Eros, which includes both erotic and political poetry. Moving rapidly between Spanish and English, he introduces readers to a language and a world that exists somewhere between the two cultures and voices. About half of this book is in English and the rest in Spanish.

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...