Las cuatro estaciones y un fragmento

Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico—few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes major international writers like Alberto ...

Loving poetry is a symbol of indolence, a challenge that requires solitude and silence, sacrifice and permanent devotion. All that a human being needs to live can be found in poetry, the artistic genre par excellence. El libro de los indolentes is a journey towards an unknown place where we inhabit, each day, a fortified but unwalled space, a river that gushes truth.

"El Cardenal Cisneros", de Carlos Pezoa V�liz. Carlos Pezoa V�liz fue un poeta y periodista autodidacta chileno (1879-1908)

Estos poemas emprenden la búsqueda de la armonía que acompasa las emociones humanas —el amor, el dolor de la muerte, la nostalgia del hogar perdido— y los ritmos de la naturaleza. Esa armonía no puede sino percibirse a través de la palabra, del nombre de las cosas, pero no el de todos los días, sino el secreto, el profundo, el otro nombre de los árboles.