POESÍA INHABITADA

“A través de la prosa y la poesía, los que tomamos en serio el arte de amar, expresamos sin prisas los tesoros que guarda el corazón, ideas trastocadas, inspiradas en medio de las noches calladas y silenciadas, plasmando en unas simples líneas la sensibilidad del arte, para disfrutar y embriagarse con la pasión que conlleva este paisaje denso y luminoso, enmarcado por el misterio y el romanticismo.” Livia Josefina Herize

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...

'¿Se sueña el árbol?' es un poemario vigoroso, lleno de una luz plástica que ilumina cada rincón de las emociones con sus versos, de vocabulario sencillo y accesible que golpea con infinitud de imágenes expuestas a pinceladas, en una lucha por hacer más visible la vida, la vida verdadera, enfrentada a los acantilados de vacío de la vida no vivida. Mas, agua al fin, se entumece y cesa y una marea cotidiana, indiferente, nos devuelve a la playa desierta de nuestra soledad compartida.

The Martin Fierro, the classic argentine poem, has been the subject of studies and discussions ever since the issuing of its first part edition -el gaucho Martin Fierro- in 1873, and there have been many ensuing editions, including some still available, to prove it. This new edition of both parts aims to render a balanced startpoint to the study of the literary piece. This edition is based on the original texts: El gaucho Martin Fierro Imprenta de La Pampa, 1872, and La vuelta de Martin Fierro Libreria del Plata, 1879, and includes no less than 535 lexicographic notes, conveniently placed at...