Versos Conversos

On the Blue Shore of Silence celebrates the centenary of the birth of Pablo Neruda, one of the most widely read and best-loved poets of the twentieth century. Although anthologies of Neruda's works abound, On the Blue Shore of Silence is the first to collect some of his poems on the sea. At times passionate and at other times peaceful, the poems chosen for this collection -- presented in bilingual format -- are meant to offer readers the experience of what it would have been like to sit with Neruda at Isla Negra, the view of the sea endless, the pulse of the waves, eternal. With English...

"An analysis of Eros as the basic element underlying the direction of the poet's work : his desire for transcendence and artistic perfection. Supported mainly by a culturally and psychoanalytically oriented methodology, it is a systematic study of the evolution of the theme, particularly of erotic imagery and symbolism, across the entire poetic corpus"--Publisher.

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...

Nos conocimos en Enero del 2010. Eran tiempos difíciles para los dos. Sexo. Pasaron los días y recibí un poema de ella que me impactó.(poema n°1) Le contesté con otro. Ya era un historia de amor. Días y días escribiendo páginas de amor y sexo. Intentamos reducir los escritos como si fueran haikus.Imposible. BESOS 50 Poemas de Amor y Sexo es un libro donde decidimos ser dos sin reconocer nuestros nombres.Unos poemas son de él y otros míos, para no tener presente el autor o la autora. Un hombre y/o una mujer no se recocen en lo escrito. "...esto es mío ? ...no es tuyo." Lo que nos...