Amor en vilo

Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico—few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes major international writers like Alberto ...

alma cuerpo boleros es la acumulación de años de sueños, vida, trova, buenas y malas compañías, vinos, amores, desengaños, cigarrillos, alegrías, malas y buenas noches, boleros, locuras y corduras.

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...

Sendas femeninas reune textos muy diversos, escritos en situaciones muy disimiles. Al pie de una fuente, da cuenta de un enamoramiento intensisimo y esta dedicado a la mama de mi hijo. Los otros, son mas adultos, e indagan en el misterio femenino en general, o en algunas otras cosas que solo aparentemente nada tienen que ver con la mujer: la mujer es mi tao. En este tiempo lloro mucho, henchido de amor."