Poesías

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...

Compuesta por casi un centenar de poemas, esta nueva entrega poética de J. M. Caballero Bonald supone, al decir del propio poeta, una suma de últimas voluntades. La celebración de la vida y la melancolía ante el paso de los años, antídotos y venenos de la memoria, actúan como desencadenante de la poesía, que aquí se sustenta en una alianza entre romanticismo y surrealismo. Situado estilísticamente en la línea de anteriores poemarios, en lo formal la principal novedad es el empleo del versículo amplio en ciertos poemas de apariencia externamente narrativa, pero en realidad de...

Imagina la desembocadura del Ebro o del Guadalquivir o la del Duero o la del Rin. Extensiones de agua que parecen parte del mar a pesar de formar parte de un río. Extensiones de agua que han pasado por meandros y caído por cascadas en el principio de su camino. Todo río empieza siendo una gota del rocío de la mañana. ¿Te animas a observar el primer paso de un camino?

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...