Simples Cosas de La Vida

Alegóricamente, las páginas de este poemario gotean matices y texturas que confieren a la obra un carácter muy personal. En cada gota salitrosa cristalizan ideas expresadas en un lenguaje rico pero no pretencioso, que nos ofrece una visión nada complaciente del devenir de los días que conformaron un pasado que huele a brea, a anhelo y decepción, a cicatrices que engalanan el cuarteado mapa de la nostalgia. Y allá donde las barcas descansan en la arena, hay un tendedero del que cuelgan versos secándose al sol.

Rosario Castellanos se singulariza por la propensión a descender al interior de su conciencia en busca de emociones que, convertidas en canto o en elegía, suelen aflorar en descarnados versos. En este volumen puede encontrarse, entre otras obras, "La lamentación de Dido", que sobresale entre lo más fino y depurado de su voz poética.

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...

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