Estaciones Del Amor

Couplets on the death of his father is the masterpiece of Jorge Manrique and has made him one of the essential authors of Spanish poetry. Conceived as an elegy, medieval elements are combined with others that announce the emerging Renaissance. And, what is most significant, they are a celebration of life amidst the Quattrocento tradition of death.

Probablemente por primera vez, devolvemos aquí a su poesía, a la poesía de Miguel Hernández, estos textos que tanto en su primera aparición editorial de 1958, como en la más completa aunque no definitiva de 1986, son presentados en ambos casos como "prosas". Y también bajo el título de “Prosas”, y no entre su poesía, aparecieron distribuidos cuando se pudo publicar por fin su obra completa. Y no sólo eso, tampoco se los consideró como unidad sino entreverados, intercalados con su narrativa, crítica, memoria, crónica, no sólo personal sino también por supuesto histórica y...

This major poetry collection is a fearless depiction of a Latina living in the best and worst of times.

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...