Carpe Amorem

Prólogo de Luna Miguel. Traducción José Luis Chamosa González y Rosa Rabadán. "Camarada, esto no es un libro; quien toca esto toca a un hombre". Así define Walt Whitman (1819-1892) una obra que construyó a lo largo de casi cuarenta años. Fruto de una época y de un lugar -la Norteamérica del siglo XIX-, este gran poema épico nace y crece con la intención de definir al hombre y a la nación americana frente al dominio cultural anglosajón. Su polémica ruptura, formal y conceptual, con el canon poético tradicional fue tal, que se dice que toda la poesía norteamericana posterior es ...

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Heaviness. Time nullifies the present, it poisons future words. Actions repeat themselves: I breathe the same air, the same place the same memories. Heaviness. In Los dioses sí hablan (The Gods, in Truth, Speak), Claudia Quackenbush voices her encapsulated feelings and experiences that she has enjoyed since her marital romance—maternal expressions, sociopolitical thoughts, even her intimate memories, sending the reader to a world of love which breaks barriers and envelops time. Through her poems, one can envision a love for God and nature, peace, optimism, nostalgia, illusions, desire, as...

Isabel Gómez construye el itinerario de un genocidio y una derrota colectiva a partir de un implacable despliegue de memoria. Nos enfrentamos, así, a una poesía que se sitúa en el lugar de los caídos y que se niega al olvido. Por lo mismo, reconstruye las huellas de aquellos desaparecidos, exterminados y establece un contrapunto con el presente.