Crepusculario Amoroso

Facundo Díaz nos ofrece una radiografía versada de los anhelos profundos del ser humano, pequeñas piezas a través de las cuales nos asomamos a las vidas de aquellos que nos rodean, o al interior de nuestras propias experiencias. Un excelente ejercicio poético que no por accesible deja de lucir una trabajada complejidad.

Este libro de poemas contiene, paradojalmente, una "extraña narrativa" que parte del deambular de una hablante lírica en las "calles de cualquier ciudad" para encontrarse con acontecimientos sobrecogedores como la muerte de un joven en el aberrante cadalso de los pobres que no pueden escapar a sus destinos miserables. Caminando entre desgarros y recuerdos de amigos muertos que caminan por los durmientes como fantasmas que no se dejan olvidar. En este paso a paso se mezclan el deseo, la distancia y el desamor. La necesidad de que ser uno en la copulación del cuerpo y del alma, a sabiendas...

This famous and universally loved poem for daily living has inspired many generations of Buddhists and non-Buddhists since it was first composed in the 8th century by the famous Indian Buddhist master Shantideva. This new translation, made under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, conveys the great lucidity and poetic beauty of the original, while preserving its full impact and spiritual insight. Reading these verses slowly, while contemplating their meaning, has a profoundly liberating effect on the mind. The poem invokes special positive states of mind, moves us from suffering and...

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...