No hay nada más importante que la poesía

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...

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.

Imagine that a volcano explodes in Indonesia and in the entire northern hemisphere the summer disappears. A dark summer without sun, without a beach, without laughter. This is a book of stories told in verse, where Jordi Tello gives us the gift of his unique vision, always told in his poetic voice.

La vida y la obra de Rubén Darío estuvieron marcadas desde su nacimiento por un extraño designio de confusión y equívocos. Su nombre no era su verdadero nombre, sus padres no eran sus verdaderos padres, el país en donde alcanzó la verdadera fama literaria no era el país que le vio nacer, los primeros juicios que sobre él emitieron personajes ilustres y autorizados se harán populares más tarde de un modo inexacto y ambiguo. Pocos podrían sostener hoy en día que no fue –que no es– el “Poeta de América”. De cualquier modo –y cualesquiera que sean sus contradicciones y...