Poémides

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...

"Sonetos", de Francisco de Quevedo. Francisco de Quevedo fue un escritor español del Siglo de Oro (1580-1645)

Con la cada del Muro de Berln, Nirvana y la Internet, llegaron estospoemas de fi n de siglo escritos mayormente entre fi nales de los aos '80 e inicios de los '90. El registro del libro era de marcada factura de la poesa Beat de Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac y Lawrence Ferlinghetti, referentes aludidos en la literatura de la poca. Su autor: un joven llamado Elidio La Torre Lagares. Sin embargo, esta poesa de fi n de siglo (segn la llama el propio autor) agot su primera tirada y ha permanecido desde entonces como un objeto de rara obtencin y ninguna circulacin. En esta nueva edicin de Embudo,...