De sueños, deseos y desamores

Isidore Ducasse nous a laissé sous le nom de comte de Lautréamont, sans doute, l'œuvre la plus corrosive, la plus fascinante, la plus insolite de toute la littérature française : Les Chants de Maldoror. Et, comme il l'écrit lui-même : " Allez y voir vous-même si vous ne voulez pas me croire. "

La mano del fuego recoge 33 poemas imprescindibles de Joan Vinyoli (1914-1984), acaso el más grande de los poetas que ha dado la lengua catalana durante el siglo XX y sin duda el más influyente, seleccionados por Jordi Llavina, comisario de los actos del centenario de Joan Vinyoli, y cuidadosamente traducidos por el poeta Carlos Vitale. En la luminosa y turbadora poesía de este "huésped inexperto de la tierra" –como se definía a sí mismo el propio Vinyoli– el lector encontrará paradójicamente infinidad de estímulos para la reflexión: la necesidad perentoria de la poesía, la...

Quan Barry embarks on discursive inquiry in Controvertibles. She lifts familiar cultural moments out of their usual settings and repositions them in front of new, disparate backdrops, endeavoring to understand the essence of modern experience. Doug Flutie's famous Hail Mary pass and Rutger Hauer's role in Blade Runner are contextualized within the Tibetan Book of the Dead, while an ultrasound reading acts as a meditation on the limits of critical theory. Samantha Smith, the Shroud of Turin, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Beamon's world-record-setting long jump, the largo from Handel's Xerxes, the...

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...