Y te llamé piedra cúbica

Este libro lleva consigo la selección de poesías que he escrito desde de mi juventud temprana hasta mis hoy 32 años de edad. Las mismas fueron escritas, en su mayoría, en transcurso de viajes : trenes, aviones, barcos, autos y más que nada en confiterías y Cafés al rededor del mundo.

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...

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 ...

La octava maravilla, poema que le dio fama a Francisco de Castro, fue publicado por primera vez en 1729, varias décadas después de la muerte de su autor. Elogiado por sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y, posteriormente, por un buen número de eruditos, el texto no había conocido una reedición en su totalidad hasta hoy que, bajo el cuidado de Alberto Pérez-Amador Adam, el FCE publica la segunda edición anotada y comentada de este documento de indudable valor en las letras novohispanas.