Poemas de lo Profundo del Corazon

El, a sus años otoñales, y sintiendo en su cuerpo la intensidad del verano, andaba conquistando primaveras, sin importarle cuando llegaría el invierno...

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...

Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and reasearch. In the second book of Dante’s epic poem...

Este libro habla de dolor. De un dolor que se arrastra reptil desde la piel y que penetra hasta el mismo corazón. Nadie sabe cómo llegó hasta aquí, pero es. Es el dolor de la violencia calada hasta en los huesos en la historia de todas nosotras, y es herencia familiar. Para poder hacer frente a la violencia y explorar los senderos del amor, tenemos que atrevernos a desentramar nuestras propias historias; deshacer los nudos que se tejieron desde la violencia oculta a nuestras ancestras de nuestros ancestros. Este libro es otra posible versión de la historia para mí, las mías y los...