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This major poetry collection is a fearless depiction of a Latina living in the best and worst of times.

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...

Lo mejor de la obra de Gabiela Mistral, Premio Nobel de Literatura, en una edición preparada y avalada por la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. Esta antología de Gabriela Mistral, una de las escritoras fundamentales del siglo XX en español, reúne íntegros los cuatro libros de poesía que la autora publicó en vida: Desolación, Ternura, Tala y Lagar. A ellos se suman inéditos poéticos de obras que no llegó a dar a imprenta, tales como Poema de Chile y Lagar II; una selección de otros poemas inéditos y dispersos, y muestras variadas de su...

A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the middle of one’s life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of The Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of ...