La rutina convertida en poesía

Jirones de mi espíritu que buscan recalar en otras almas, y son, naves al viento que esperan encontrar puerto.

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence--published in a bilingual format--written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas. Thunderweavers is a story of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It deals with the...

"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

Este poema filosófico en prosa narrativa constituye una reflexión original sobre la erótica de la arquitectura. La obra recibió una entusiasta recepción crítica a raíz de su primera edición inglesa en 1992 y ha sido actualizada para esta edición por el autor. Pérez-Gómez recuenta la historia de amor del famoso tratado en forma de novela del Renacimiento Italiano Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) desde una perspectiva contemporánea. La obra original, que ha sido libro de culto de arquitectos, filósofos, alquimistas, escritores y artistas durante muchos siglos, revela el espacio...