Almas fragmentadas

A selection of poetry, published between 1995 and 2001, features poems that later were made into songs that appear in both versions, and includes works presented in reverse chronological order, with the idea that the reader, by having access to this work through the newest and nearest door, will soon be tempted to open other doors, as if doing an inventory.

Natalia Toledo'sThe Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems of love and loss the world's population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma.The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico's highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004. FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!

Una visión de los grandes pilares que definen el amor: tristeza, esperanza y el amor en sí mismo.El libro se divide en estos tres apartados. Se tratan con textos de prosa poética y delicada, en los que se sumerge poco a poco el lector e integra sus propias vivencias con las de la joven autora. "Porque en mi corazón el fénix con sus alas ha erguido un templo que arde sus latidos con tu contacto y mis venas se han vuelto adictas al batir de sus alas." BIOGRAFÍA: Alba Montero Jodra: Nació en 1996 en Valladolid, bióloga y escritora. Comenzó sus estudios en el colegio Antonio García...

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...