Seducción

"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...

El Therigatha (literalmente "Poemas de ancianas sabias" o de mujeres que han crecido en sabiduría) está considerado la primera antología universal de literatura femenina. Se trata de los poemas que transmitieron las primeras mujeres que se unieron a la orden budista. Por tanto, forman un testimonio de la máxima importancia para conocer el budismo de los orígenes, un material que más tarde fue incorporado en el canon budista en lengua pali. Su calidad espiritual y hondura literaria no tiene parangón. Y, sin embargo, hasta la fecha no habían sido traducidos ni publicados en español. La ...

Toda la poesía de Alberti de los años veinte. Desde los poemas anteriores a Marinero en tierra hasta la víspera de su etapa de poeta comprometido.

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed—having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere—is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican...