Poesas

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

Lo mejor de la obra de Gabiela Mistral, Premio Nobel de Literatura, en una edición preparada y avalada por la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. Esta antología de Gabriela Mistral, una de las escritoras fundamentales del siglo XX en español, reúne íntegros los cuatro libros de poesía que la autora publicó en vida: Desolación, Ternura, Tala y Lagar. A ellos se suman inéditos poéticos de obras que no llegó a dar a imprenta, tales como Poema de Chile y Lagar II; una selección de otros poemas inéditos y dispersos, y muestras variadas de su...

Catullus is a companion of lovers and of those whom love has disappointed. He is also a satirical and epigrammatic writer who savagely consoles with laughter. Carmina captures in English both the mordant, scathing wit and also the concise tenderness, the famous love for reluctant Lesbia who is made present in these new versions. A range of English metres and rhymes evokes the many modes and moods of this most engaging, erotic and influential of Latin poets. Of Len Krisak's translations of Horace, Frederic Raphael writes, [He] enables us both to enjoy a fresh voice and to hear (and see), very...

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...