Teoremas del fuego

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

Un diálogo como prólogo. --Te has preguntado ¿por qué el arco iris y las mariposas Monarcas disponen de tan breve tiempo para mostrar sus colores? --Me parece que la naturaleza es un perfecto diseño. --¡Nonono!, te equivocas, sólo la muerte y sus infinitas razones sin bacará hacen que la belleza sea infinita.

Los trabajos que se recogen en este volumen tienen como objetivo abordar de la manera más completa posible la relación de Juan Ramón Jiménez con Hispanoamérica. Por un lado, reconstruyen pormenorizadamente su estancia en los países hispanoamericanos en los que residió o visitó de manera prolongada (Cuba, Puerto Rico y Argentina); y por otro, analizan la presencia de Hispanoamérica en su obra, calibrando el influjo de la realidad y la literatura hispanoamericana en su pensamiento, valorando su labor como crítico de la literatura hispanoamericana, y determinando su huella en la...

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...