Mirando al mar soñé

Sinopsis: En este texto el afán de la autora es emergente, no suicida, necesita alertar de sus angustias existenciales y confianza en el acto de una escritura activa que va más allá de la contemplación. ¿Quedaré varada en la cuerda del horizonte? Un grito, la cruzada por la vida desde su yo interior, un clamor a la sobrevivencia, al amor, la libertad y para ello acude a versos alternativos, femeninos, con variables de intensidad entre lo simbólico y surreal, imágenes y metáforas como elementos coadyuvantes. Entre versos libres y prosa poética, el poemario se subdivide en tres...

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...

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...

La verdad de la poesía que no crea un mundo imaginario sino que celebra el existente, las palabras de Neruda pidiendo con convicción el ser liberado de inventar, la rotundad materia de las palabra elevada a la naturaleza de seres que respiran y habitan un mundo contemplado con amor, forman parte del espíritu que anima estos poemas de Álvaro Neil Franco Zambrano. Sus versos nos regalan el paisaje de su infancia y juventud inocentes, afectuosas, marcadas por el amor a los hombres, y celebran con cariño y verdad días luminosos y encarnados en un corazón que nos va dando su porción de...