Deseos

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

Couplets on the death of his father is the masterpiece of Jorge Manrique and has made him one of the essential authors of Spanish poetry. Conceived as an elegy, medieval elements are combined with others that announce the emerging Renaissance. And, what is most significant, they are a celebration of life amidst the Quattrocento tradition of death.

Después de un detenido y minucioso estudio de los manuscritos originales y de las distintas ediciones sueltas de los poemas, Montserrat Escartín ha reconstruido la obra, que cuenta con piezas tan excepcionales como“Error de cálculo”, el poema que la cierra. El prólogo señala las circunstancias biográficas en que se gestó el libro, lo pone en relación con los dos que lo precedieron, deslinda sus profundos vínculos con la lírica clásica española y subraya asimismo la importancia de los elementos modernos y cosmopolitas.

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...