Con esta voz

La presente obra contiene una colección de 100 poemas que llevan un fin de despertar el alma del ser humano a que regrese a su hogar, o sea al origen de su naturaleza. Cada uno de los poemas lleva en si el bosquejo de la experiencia. Aquello de lo cual nos deja preguntado al meditar en el porqué de las cosas. Cascaras y Miel representa el alimento con el cual uno puede ser sustentado ya sea en término literal o en sentido figurado cuando uno regresa a vivir con la naturaleza, la madre que nos arrullo en sus brazos con sus susurros y canciones.

DESAGRAVIO DE LA CIGARRA Cántame hoy, cigarra, y olvídate del tiempo. Toda la vida cabe en un solo verano.

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...

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 ...