Poemas y memorias

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...

"RENOVATIO" is the 3rd collection of Bonafide Rojas & the 2nd publication from Grand Concourse Press. This collection of poems deal with the beauty of reinvention in life & in art, coming of age, dealing with death, fatherhood, the impermanence of our mortality, the realization of interconnectivity & the quiet beauty of solitude. "It's difficult to explain what Rojas has done in RENOVATIO. Like pulling a rabbit from a hat, it seems impossible to yank words from the stronghold of self like he has. But unlike pulling a rabbit from a hat, this is not an illusion. This is not a trick. Rojas...

Hay un poema inhabitado No escrito aún, o extraviado en la memoria colectiva, Como un grito mudo, a punto de salir despavorido.

Jack escribe haikus con Carolyn intenta deshacerse del tipo más guapo que ha visto en su vida. Lu Anne se casa con Neal y un montón de problemas. Michael Pinta con la imposición y las ideologías. Los amigos viven el instante y buscan expandirse en el alcohol, el sexo, la literatura; Imágenes desechables. su raya sus mentes; y aparecen nombres de talento (para joderlo todo, para imaginarlo todo): Allen, William, Lawrence. Echando mano de la mitología beat, inventando un libro apócrifo y en movimiento entre la crónica y la reinvención de una época, José Eugenio Sánchez nos entrega...