Ortiga

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...

Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words is Lucha CorpiÍs pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in Spanish and expertly translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, the poems fairly bloom off the page in a display of lyric virtuosity. Corpi is the first of the Mexican American poets to explore through deeply personal and intimate feelings potentially explosive political topics, transculturation, the role of women, her commitment to social change, and the grand themes of love and death. Highly sophisticated, enchanting, and well...

"Bajo el mismo techo, es una historia narrada en prosa poética en donde el autor nos muestra tres vidas paralelas: la de un escritor, la de una maestra y la de una artista plástica. Hablando de los sentimientos humanos como son el amor, desamor, la envidia, el ego, la soberbia y alguna que otra pasión, entremezclándolas en una aventura de ficción y jugando entre poemas, arte y letras, contadas a un ser inanimado que cobra vida. Estos tres personajes, junto con Sofía, hacen de la historia un dulce acompañamiento melódico y de complicidad, mostrándonos la capacidad del ser humano para...

"En simples palabras" es un libro de poemas con estilo y espíritu libre. Combina poemas escuetos y otros no tantos. Transmite en simples palabras, emociones y reflexiones complejas.