La Cruz del Sur [Poesía completa]

En Una temporada en el infierno, Rimbaud desecha siglos de civilización en favor de una travesía, menos literaria que vital, que otorgue sentido a la existencia. Al comenzar el poema, escribe: “...resolví buscar la llave que me abriera las puertas del festín antiguo, donde quizás recuperaría el apetito. La caridad es esa llave”. Palabras asombrosas para aquellos que se satisfacen con una mirada superficial de su obra y su vida, pero no para quienes adivinan en ellas la cifra y el testimonio de su aventura. A los diecinueve años, cuando advirtió que eso no bastaba, calló para...

Esta antología bilingüe recoge, por primera vez en España, poemas representativos de la variedad de temas que Heine toca en los tres tomos de poesía publicados en su vida.

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....

The poems in this collection mix English and Spanish while tracing the ?kool logic? of culture in transit. Scuttling from free verse and limericks to d?cimas and terza rima, the poet is our guide on a transcultural tour through downtowns, suburbs, stockyards, shantytowns, power lunches, HMOs, open mics, and open sores. Fusing pop riffs, Beat whimsy, Nuyorican punch lines, and modernist deadpan, the poet in these pages is also the comedian, the visionary, the j?baro, the agitator, the theorist, the lounge singer, the slacker ? Puerto Rican poet and performer Urayo?n Noel has coined a new sort...