Poetisa

Con la llegada de la pandemia eché la vista atrás y recordé mis viejos escritos, muchos de ellos nacidos como canciones. Sin darme cuenta, me vi escribiendo de nuevo, hasta altas horas de la madrugada, plasmando todo aquello que se agolpaba en mi cabeza. Expulsé mis miedos y apareció este libro que brota desde el primer momento en que se me ocurrió una historia. Sin ninguna pretensión, solo por el acto libre de escribir, me decidí a sacarlo a la luz, para dejar a la posteridad una pequeña parte de mi ser. Si escuchas al leer, podrás oír las canciones que se ocultan, esperando que...

La poesía de Vicente Sabido (Mérida, Badajoz, 1953), en la que confluyen intensidad emocional, transparencia expresiva y una extraordinaria musicalidad, constituye un buen ejemplo de lo que viene entendiéndose por “poesía figurativa” o “de línea clara”, la tendencia más significativa en la poesía española de las dos últimas décadas del siglo XX. En ella el verso y la vida vuelven a anudarse, el yo, lo autobiográfico y lo confesional recuperan su papel, se retorna a la tradición como punto de apoyo para el desarrollo del mundo personal, se busca un equilibrio entre cuidado...

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

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...