Frases Del Alma

El poeta como náufrago en una isla desierta. La poesía como herramienta de conversación desde la soledad. El poema como mensaje en una botella que se lanza al mar para que algún día pueda ser recogido por algún lector.

Leopoldo Lugones Argüello's first book of poems, Las montañas del oro, contained measured and free verse prose and appeared during the height of modernism. Later he published two more collections inspired by Rubén Darío. Odas seculares marked a change in his style, exalting the Argentine riches inspired by Virgil. His poetry becomes intimate in later works, and some of his posthumous poems have a more narrative style.

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 ...

El mundo se analiza mejor desde la sonrisa, y esta, en verso, es la que se recuerda mejor. Este pequeño libro contiene una recopilación de epigramas(poemas cortos, generalmente, entre ocho y doce versos) y otros más extensos, que relatan, de manera ingeniosa, situaciones cotidianas: fumadores incapaces de dejarlo; avaros en extremo; políticos de escasa competencia; decisiones absurdas, etc. Veamos un pequeño ejemplo de ello: Saturnino, el concejal, cuando, fuera de sus lares, tiene urgencia miccional, para no pagar en bares, va provisto de un pañal. Se trata, en definitiva, de un...