Deseos

Roberto Bolaño’s own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. ‘Prose from Autumn in Gerona’, a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, ‘The Neochileans’, is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour traveling north from Chile to Peru and Ecuador....

Gustavo de Maeztu pintó en 1917 dos cuadros fulminantes: son "La fuerza" y "El orden", oscuro matrimonio que copula sobre el pobre jergón de los humildes. Lamen ochenta años con su lengua los lienzos donde el 98 fue dejando su protesta civil...

Pablo Neruda is one of the world's most popular poets, and The Book of Questions is Copper Canyon's all-time best-seller. This updated bilingual edition is entirely re-designed and features a new cover, new interior, and an introduction by translator. In The Book of Questions, Neruda refuses to be corralled by the rational mind. Composed of 316 unanswerable questions, these poems integrate the wonder of a child with the experiences of an adult. By turns Orphic, comic, surreal, and poignant, Neruda's questions lead the reader beyond reason into realms of intuition and pure imagination. Tell...

Versos deshojados beben en ese manantial, en donde las palabras atrapan el misterio profundo de la realidad. Son la inspiración de una mirada, de un instante, puro sentimiento, aguda percepción de la fragilidad de la existencia huma-na: microhistorias que guardan sueños, ensueños, delirios. Sentimientos. Costumbres. Rebeldía. Destellos de luz que confieren a dichos poemas esa luminosidad sostenida en el intervalo, donándoles de un mágico lirismo. Y hace que las palabras dejen de ser una alusión a la realidad, un modo de interrogarla o definirla y, mágicamente, exalten esa realidad...