EL SUBLIME IDIOMA DE LA PIEL - (Poesia)

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

El anhelo de traducir el amor a palabras es el hilo conductor de los sonetos que conformaneste volumen. El autor rescata de las experiencias de su vida aquellas que mejor pueden plasmar la magnitud y la esencia de un sentimiento tan común como singular, tantransparente como enigmático. La forma preestablecida del soneto, con sus estrictos límites,complica más aún la negociación entre el deseo de decir y su concreta expresión, pero, en esta obra, tal dificultad parece volverse acicate de la agudeza y de la precisión en la sempiterna pugna del poeta con lo inefable.

I am honored to dedicate my poetry in English and Spanish to the world and specially in these difficult times that we have . I know that my experiences that I have had since my early childhood have given me solutions for many of the challenges that our world faces today. I support the protection of the environment since I believe that it is our duty to protect what God has given us, and not to to be destructive to flora and fauna; and that wars between humans should be resolved in a peaceful and cordial way. I also address homelessness, drug abuse, abuse of the elderly , and to prayerfully...

En el año 2014 varios poemas me eligieron para que los escriba y estos son 100 de ellos. Felices, enojados, tristes o graciosos, abarcan muchos temas, desde el amor hasta la injusticia social. Esta colección es la primera que publico y espero que no sea la última :)