Kelly Rowland

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.

Discussions of the life of Torres Garcia and the development of his art are accompanied by vivid reproductions of his paintings, drawings, and sculptures

Johann Sebastian Bach y George Frideric Handel, dos colosos de la música clásica, nacen el mismo año, ambos en Alemania; sin embargo, no logran conocerse personalmente. Bach permanece siempre en su país, donde tiene veinte hijos. Handel, en cambio, hace fama y fortuna en Inglaterra, sin llegar a contraer matrimonio. Largas y prolíficas vidas las dos, unidas en un final común: la ceguera, propiciada por la torpe intervención del mismo aprendiz de cirujano ocular. A partir de una revisión médico-biográfica de las vidas de estos compositores, Martínez Palomo revela las respuestas a...