Un espacio en mi tiempo

Known primarily for his poetry of social protest Chicano poet Alurista moves in a new direction in Z Eros, which includes both erotic and political poetry. Moving rapidly between Spanish and English, he introduces readers to a language and a world that exists somewhere between the two cultures and voices. About half of this book is in English and the rest in Spanish.

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...

Siento el cantar de una tierra, tierra que lucha a su paso, tierra de sed en el alma, del alma de su trabajo. Al alzar su firme mirada, al grito de la verdad luchan por el bien eterno con honor y con lealtad.

En este libro singular de Antonio Hernández se anudan tres mitologías. Nueva York (mito y realidad), Federico García Lorca y Luis Rosales toman la palabra para hacer hablar a la conciencia poética, a la conciencia histórica, a la conciencia a secas que tal vez juntas sean la misma. Hernández parte (y toma el título) del último libro imaginado, acaso apenas iniciado, de Luis Rosales, Nueva York después de muerto, e inicia una fascinante aventura en búsqueda de lo que el propio Rosales denominaba la poesía total; es decir, una dicción poética en la que la reflexión, el diálogo,...