Tiempos de Malaga/ Malaga Times

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...

Loving poetry is a symbol of indolence, a challenge that requires solitude and silence, sacrifice and permanent devotion. All that a human being needs to live can be found in poetry, the artistic genre par excellence. El libro de los indolentes is a journey towards an unknown place where we inhabit, each day, a fortified but unwalled space, a river that gushes truth.

No es fácil vivir ninguna vida, parece decir el autor. Y nadie sabe nunca cómo se marca el destino en uno mismo: si son los demás, si es uno en la terquedad de la inercia, o sólo jugamos el rol de dejarnos vencer desde antes de la carrera. De todos modos, los relatos de este libro tienen un misterio, y es bueno encontrar misterios como piedras lisas en la arena. Brenda Ríos

Poemas escritos por María Cristina López Stewart, militante del MIR secuestrada en 1974 por la DINA, durante la dictadura cívico-militar encabezada por Pinochet, que continúa desaparecida hasta hoy.