Reflejos De Un Alma Apasionada

This multi-faceted collection presents the Spanish language poetry of Alvaro Cardona-Hine written since 1954.

El azul en la flama, nueva estación de uno de los itinerarios poéticos más deslumbrantes y sólidos de nuestra viva tradición, es el pulido testimonio de un viaje (hacia adentro, hacia afuera) en el que el oficio ha sabido aliar, con maestría los imperios de la razón y los sentidos. La mirada lúcida de David Huerta descubre paisajes autosuficientes en inusitados lugares, abre ventanas en los muros que la costumbre y el discurso lógico levantan con terquedad y que, por parecerse tanto a lo que hemos convenido en llamar realidad, ni siquiera intuíamos que estaban ahí.

Quan Barry embarks on discursive inquiry in Controvertibles. She lifts familiar cultural moments out of their usual settings and repositions them in front of new, disparate backdrops, endeavoring to understand the essence of modern experience. Doug Flutie's famous Hail Mary pass and Rutger Hauer's role in Blade Runner are contextualized within the Tibetan Book of the Dead, while an ultrasound reading acts as a meditation on the limits of critical theory. Samantha Smith, the Shroud of Turin, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Beamon's world-record-setting long jump, the largo from Handel's Xerxes, the...

"This book examines the work of Guillermo Carnero, one of Spain's most important contemporary poets, in the context of the critical theories developed in the West after World War II that inform all of Carnero's writing." "Previous critical studies have tried to link Carnero's poetry to that of other novisimo poets within the narrow confines of Spanish poetics and literary history. This study seeks to move beyond the limiting perspective of the Spanish generational paradigm."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved