El ángel en la hoguera

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

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.

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...

La naturaleza de la vida es la impermanencia, y con la vida, el ser humano está siempre en proceso de cambio. Pero algo en estas transformaciones permanece inalterable. ¿Qué varía y qué es lo queda en ese tránsito? ¿Cómo se revela lo que somos y nunca dejamos de ser? Vivir es sin duda un riesgo que asumimos a pesar de que esa aceptación entrañe siempre una pérdida. Mitad, de Julieta Valero, es una honda y poética refl exión en torno a los temas más vigentes en tiempos que exigen sumergirnos en cuestionamientos que no acaban nunca de agotarse. Lo que se rompe y lo que brota...