Sueño del ojo y del espejo

Lectura de bachillerato para la PAU 2020-2022 en la Comunidad Valenciana. Hay autores que con su vida y su escritura levantan un mundo propio, único, que apenas cuesta identificar en medio de un mar de palabras, de imágenes y de emociones. Es el caso de Federico García Lorca, el escritor en lengua castellana más conocido y popular después de Cervantes y, quizás, el poeta español más apreciado, leído, citado y traducido en el mundo. Hay detrás de él y de su obra una fama que expande su figura por los cinco continentes. Es, por decirlo así, un mito contemporáneo, un personaje que...

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 ...

En estos poemas, la autora honra el don de la palabra reivindicando la memoria de sus ancestros, pues en la vida de los pueblos originarios son los rezanderos, curanderos y graniceros los facultados para realizar peticiones de lluvia, los que se comunican con las energías masculinas y femeninas, los capaces de hablar con el viento o el fuego.

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...