Antonio Machado. Biografía poética de una soledad

Rodolfo Alonso, poeta verdadero, nombra lo que no tiene nombre todavía. Su poesía crece a la intemperie de lo que va a venir y está llena de hombres y de mujeres: le duelen “las cadenas/las manos de los otros”. Ve la palabra ajena y la alberga, la transforma, la calcina para devolverla limpia al otro. Juan Gelman

Con “El evangelio según la muerte” el escritor dominicano, José Acosta, ganó el Premio Internacional de Poesía "Nicolás Guillén" de México en 2003. Es un libro profundo, genuino y considerado muy denso conceptualmente, en el que la dimensión metafísica se mezcla con elementos surrealistas e imaginativos de extraordinaria belleza poética.

A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden's new translation does full justice to Vallejo's complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of more than...

Francisco Bustos eloquently writes of Colonia Ruiz Cortinez and Barrio San Ysidro, waiting in la linea to be scrutinized by U.S. Customs officials, and of the bi-national journey of living both in the United States and Mxico. His melodic tone defies the fast-paced world of schedules, while being actively engaged in the moment, and then fleeting down another street to encounter another tale. As es la vida qu no?, Bustos says, As es. Michael Cheno Wickert focuses mainly on living in the barrios of Southeast San Diego where life often turns toward violence and suspicion is commonplace. It is a...