Poemas

La antología internacional La marimba canta en Jotabé, es resultado del I Concurso Internacional de Rima Jotabé México, en la que participaron escritores de diversos países, que escriben poesía en este estilo de composición neoclásica.

"Nada separa al muro de su escombro, sino esa red azul que tú mismo has creado. Nada separa al barco de su bello naufragio: Es ilusorio el viaje y en la palabra pétalo ya estaba lo marchito. El recuerdo es un sueño de lo deshabitado. Descarta la ficción de los días. Como el antiguo pueblo imaginaste un éxodo y perdiste un rostro para poder amarlo."

A selection of poetry by Francisco Brines, Spain’s most eminent living poet. A fully bilingual text with preface. In November 2020 Brines was awarded the prestigious Cervantes Prize for Literature, widely regarded as equivalent to the Nobel, for a ‘poetic work that goes from the carnal and the purely human to the metaphysical, to the spiritual, towards an aspiration of beauty and immortality’, according to the jury. Translation was supported by the Ministry of Culture in Spain. Una selección de la poesía de Francisco Brines, el poeta contemporáneo español más importante. Todos los...

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...