Poesía Selecta de Federico García Lorca

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Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

La vida se me antoja una incierta travesía por una mar, no siempre en calma, hacia un destino ignorado, por más que uno se empeñe en convencerse que, al final del viaje, arribará a esa playa idílica, que se fue forjando a golpe de esperanza. Tal vez eso la convierte en el más arquetípico producto de la subjetividad que el ser humano enarbola, casi a la desesperada, por no claudicar ante la auténtica objetividad…, lo desconocido del destino de la existencia. Como diría Sócrates, —“sólo sé, que no sé nada”. De modo que ¿para qué darle más vueltas? Permítaseme por eso,...

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed—having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere—is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican...