Abraham Lincoln

En este libro se registra exhaustivamente el paso u ósmosis entre literatura, cine y vida, poesía e ideología, compromiso social y búsqueda interior.

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

Este libro relata toda la historia de esta legendaria banda de metal cristiano. Desde la infancia de los miembros, la época del Roxx Regime, su éxito en la radio y MTV, y los estadios llenos, hasta las triunfantes giras de reunión y las grabaciones, cubre casi todo lo que hay que saber sobre Stryper, y no sólo la palabrería. Preguntas como "¿Cómo evolucionó Stryper?" o "¿Qué ocurrió realmente durante el periodo de Against the Law?" tienen respuesta aquí. Las respuestas, derivadas de incontables horas de entrevistas, proceden directamente de los propios miembros de la banda y de...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...