Bilingual Blues

In 1912, from Ronda, Spain, the great Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote about the lasting impact Toledo, Spain, had made on him the previous month. He was fascinated by the city and the work of El Greco. This book presents Rilke's lyrical impressions alongside fantastic illustrations by Eva Vásquez, who spent a year in the streets and squares of Toledo shaping her vision of the city into images. Two different, complementary perspectives of Toledo come together to encourage the discovery—or rediscovery—of the wonderful “Imperial City.”

Isabel Gómez construye el itinerario de un genocidio y una derrota colectiva a partir de un implacable despliegue de memoria. Nos enfrentamos, así, a una poesía que se sitúa en el lugar de los caídos y que se niega al olvido. Por lo mismo, reconstruye las huellas de aquellos desaparecidos, exterminados y establece un contrapunto con el presente.

Se trata de un poemario con imagenes de pueblo, poemas musicales que recogen la experiencia del alma de un pueblo, con humor se expresan el sentir de un pueblo que celebra la vida con musica y alegria.El poemario recuerda tiempos buenos, tiempos pasados y describe la belleza de la naturaleza de su isla amada y el caracter de su gente...El alma se refresca y recordando se vive...

Wide Sargasso Sea & 62 Other Poems is a bilingual book, written in English and translated into Spanish. These 63 poems, chiefly about life Over-the-Hill, on New Providence, are, or attempt to be, the beating heart of life among Bahamians in the country's capital. The entire island upon which the capital sits is referred to as Nassau. It is there where these 63 poems, most of them, came into the word. There poems were forged by the tensions coupled with the beauty of life among Bahamians. They reflect the real life of the people in what is imagined to be a place for tourists and tourism. These ...