Poetisa

Excerpt from La Pupila Insomne: Con un Bosquejo Biografico de Raul Roa Era Dlores Villena - anota Serpa me mujer de delicada belleza, rostro fino y gestos aristocraticos, que delatabdg/ la rancieda'd de su estirpe. Tenia los cabellos claros, azules los ojos y la voz melancol ca y blando, transida de ternura. Toda ella irradiaba simpatia, noble modestia y dulzurm Y asi...sa mantuvo hasta los dias postreros de su vida. NI siquiera la em fermedad implacable y tmturadora - que la llega al se pulcro pudo ag'siar la miel dotada, ademas, de una fertil y der - unacambio, es un posiiivistci. T-e'...

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...

Siempre en la búsqueda del sentimiento a través de la palabra. Este poemario se ha acercado, pero ha de seguir en la condena de la ilusión y de los límites.

Quan Barry embarks on discursive inquiry in Controvertibles. She lifts familiar cultural moments out of their usual settings and repositions them in front of new, disparate backdrops, endeavoring to understand the essence of modern experience. Doug Flutie's famous Hail Mary pass and Rutger Hauer's role in Blade Runner are contextualized within the Tibetan Book of the Dead, while an ultrasound reading acts as a meditation on the limits of critical theory. Samantha Smith, the Shroud of Turin, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Beamon's world-record-setting long jump, the largo from Handel's Xerxes, the...