Amalgama / Conflations

On the Blue Shore of Silence celebrates the centenary of the birth of Pablo Neruda, one of the most widely read and best-loved poets of the twentieth century. Although anthologies of Neruda's works abound, On the Blue Shore of Silence is the first to collect some of his poems on the sea. At times passionate and at other times peaceful, the poems chosen for this collection -- presented in bilingual format -- are meant to offer readers the experience of what it would have been like to sit with Neruda at Isla Negra, the view of the sea endless, the pulse of the waves, eternal. With English...

Al soneto, se dice, le robaron la libertad. Pero no es cierto: la libertad no es hacer lo que uno quiere, sino lo que uno puede dentro de parámetros determinados. Cada civilización entiende esa libertad y la expresa a su manera y, por eso, cada civilización también luce su propia tradición de sonetistas. Los ingleses tienen a Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Rossetti y Hardy; los franceses, a Baudelaire, Verlaine y Mallarmé; los portugueses, a Miranda, Camões y Quental; y los alemanes, a Rilke y Hofmannsthal. Nosotros, en castellano, somos más fecundos y, acaso, más efectistas....

Por primera vez en español se presenta una amplia muestra de la poesía coreana contemporánea. Un cuerpo poético íntimamente vinculado a la naturaleza, cuyo predominio temático con la soledad, la meditación, la contemplación de los misterios de lo cotidiano y del mundo. Chunsu Kim es el poeta más relevante de la poesía coreana del siglo XX. Profesor universitario de literatura, su magisterio no sólo es académico, sino que se enriquece con una extraordinaria obra creativa y con una densa reflexión ensayística.

Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of...