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El título alude al séptimo sello del mensaje del Apocalipsis en la Biblia, que significa el silencio, y sirve de pretexto a la autora para sumergirnos en su estimulante universo poético, donde se abordan los límites entre real e irreal, sagrado y profano, banal y absolutamente necesario, plasmado aquí con gran talento. Los poemas en prosa de Elénkova nos acercan al mundo de todos los días: una tubería de agua, un viaje en coche, un túnel, los cambios de estación, la dulzura del sol... y lo trasciende, de pronto, para conducirnos a un sorprendente cierre de poema que nos aboca,...

Obras de participantes del VII Encuentro Literario Internacional Luz del Corazón (ELILUC), celebrado en el año 2016.

Stella Nemo, the most appealing sort of sophisticated naif, plunges her paper ship, the Nautilus, into deepest, blackest space, crossing into the fraught domains of other planets and other minds, beaming requests for information to Ada Byron (a clone and psychic information scientist), and dreaming of the renaissance poet Thomas Wyatt (who exists as data). Stella's mission: to attempt to think and to write without being disturbed, derailed or killed.

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...