Principio de los árboles

En este libro, la poeta vuelve a indagar en sus temas recurrentes: la viva representación de las yertas imágenes de su infancia, el viaje corporal por el paisaje del espíritu, el desamparo natural del hombre, la soledad en llamas de la inteligencia. No obstante, en esta ocasión, López Colomé agudiza su mirada y capta momentos epifánicos a través de la lengua. Sobre este poemario, Hernán Bravo Varela ha escrito: "Basta el santo y seña para que una puerta se abra. Sin embargo, el santo y seña pide una presencia detrás de las palabras proferidas. Pura López Colomé ha concebido la...

Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico—few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes major international writers like Alberto ...

¿Por qué escribí este libro sencillo? Para expresar, desahogar todo el amor y el desamor que llevo en mi, todos esos momentos de ilusión, de pasión, de dolor que solemos sentir cuando nos enamoramos o terminamos con alguien o cuanto simplemente no podemos llegar a esa persona, a ese hombre que tanto amamos.

Poetry. "Bennett has been the avant in avant-garde in the latter half of the 20th century with his Lost and Found Times, one of the great 'small press poetry rags' of all time, and then through his Luna Bisonte Prods press. OLVIDOS ('Memories'; though the word also and literally means 'things forgotten') is quite possibly his masterpiece. 339 pages of zany often inarticulate expositions of a kind of lunar madness that can only be the work of the descendent of such poets as Vicente Huidobro and Guillaume Apollinaire. There is most likely something for everyone here from minimalist visual...