A Cántaro Desnudo

Inspiration (Vol. III) is another gift from Guatemalan poet Germán Toledo, in which we can yet again appreciate his verses full of love, passion, tenderness, profound lessons, wise advice, reflections on life's mysteries, and more. In this volume, this prolific author concludes his trilogy of inspirations, to the delight of poetry lovers.

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...

Todos hemos estado enamorados alguna vez. Ese amor pudo haber sido correspondido o pudo haberse quedado en visto. No me voy a meter en eso, pero es bueno saber que a la hora de declararse siempre hay que ser directo, conciso y, sobre todo, sincero. Trece poemas de amor y una cosa larga es nada más y nada menos que eso, algo directo, conciso y sincero.

Leopoldo Lugones Argüello's first book of poems, Las montañas del oro, contained measured and free verse prose and appeared during the height of modernism. Later he published two more collections inspired by Rubén Darío. Odas seculares marked a change in his style, exalting the Argentine riches inspired by Virgil. His poetry becomes intimate in later works, and some of his posthumous poems have a more narrative style.