Pensamientos De Victoria

This is a Spanish-language edition of The Latin Deli, Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, El deli latino opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes work that has made "important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of...

Leopoldo Lugones Argüello's first book of poems, Las montañas del oro, contained measured and free verse prose and appeared during the height of modernism. Later he published two more collections inspired by Rubén Darío. Odas seculares marked a change in his style, exalting the Argentine riches inspired by Virgil. His poetry becomes intimate in later works, and some of his posthumous poems have a more narrative style.

Introduces the latest collection of a noted Argentine-born poet who has lived the life of the grand artistic expatriate in Paris since 1961, yet retains the admiration and respect of literary critics in his native country to the point that Revista Debaste compared his creative talent and genius to that of Plato's demiurge.

Estamos ante una poesía labrada y grabada en la confección que sólo puede dar el encuentro auténtico del artista con su materia -el lenguaje, la palabra, la imagen- y el entorno al cual no sólo busca describir, sino desentrañar con el asombro de los ojos que ven lo que nos estaba vedado y lo verbaliza con una escritura proscrita por distinta, por ir contra la imagen harto consabida: el lugar común de la poesía previsible. Dice Mario Raúl Guzmán, prologuista del libro: "Algo más que una lírica: una actitud ante la creación artística en la que importa más que la escritura del...