Peregrinaje en tres lapsos / Pilgrimage in Three Lapses

Heaviness. Time nullifies the present, it poisons future words. Actions repeat themselves: I breathe the same air, the same place the same memories. Heaviness. In Los dioses sí hablan (The Gods, in Truth, Speak), Claudia Quackenbush voices her encapsulated feelings and experiences that she has enjoyed since her marital romance—maternal expressions, sociopolitical thoughts, even her intimate memories, sending the reader to a world of love which breaks barriers and envelops time. Through her poems, one can envision a love for God and nature, peace, optimism, nostalgia, illusions, desire, as...

The Martin Fierro, the classic argentine poem, has been the subject of studies and discussions ever since the issuing of its first part edition -el gaucho Martin Fierro- in 1873, and there have been many ensuing editions, including some still available, to prove it. This new edition of both parts aims to render a balanced startpoint to the study of the literary piece. This edition is based on the original texts: El gaucho Martin Fierro Imprenta de La Pampa, 1872, and La vuelta de Martin Fierro Libreria del Plata, 1879, and includes no less than 535 lexicographic notes, conveniently placed at...

"El libro está integrado por ocho poemas de variada extensión y se cierra con un "Así sea", equivalente al "Amén" de las oraciones cristianas, lo cual le transfiere un sentido de rito sagrado. Tres voces líricas, la del poeta, la de la "amada" y la del "amado" desarrollan el tema en una sucesión de diálogos que no conspiran con la esencia lírica pues anuncian la forma lírico-dramática de la última etapa de plena madurez de Eunice Odio. Con Los elementos terrestres es obvio que Eunice Odio se integra definitivamente en los movimientos de vanguardia al interpretar los temas a varios...

"La poesia de Mistral es la voz de la nostalgia de la naturaleza sublimada en un mundo interior que se enriquece en entornos ajenos, la palabra mestiza en la que se fusionan mundos diversos, y una religiosidad que no atiende a los canones de ningun credo."