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"En simples palabras" es un libro de poemas con estilo y espíritu libre. Combina poemas escuetos y otros no tantos. Transmite en simples palabras, emociones y reflexiones complejas.

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...

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) is Spain’s master poet, the explorer of dream and landscape, and of consciousness below language. Widely regarded as the greatest twentieth century poet who wrote in Spanish, Machado—like his contemporary Rilke—is intensely introspective and meditative. In this collection, the unparalleled translator Willis Barnstone, returns to the poet with whom he first started his distinguished career, offering a new bilingual edition which provides a sweeping assessment of Machado’s work. In addition, Border of a Dream includes a reminiscence by Nobel Laureate Juan...

Hasta bien entrado el siglo XIX, las ediciones de la poesía de Quevedo se organizaron según el modelo de la que en 1648 preparó, en complicidad con el autor, José González de Salas, un humanista de la época. La recuperación de El Parnaso español supone una contribución de primer orden al conocimiento de un corpus poético considerado un clásico ya en vida de Quevedo. La monumental edición de Ignacio Arellano, acreditado especialista en su obra, facilita un acercamiento crítico a un material que su anotación permite comprender y disfrutar en toda su complejidad.