Emocionario

Este volumen reúne dos libros que fueron publicados en Eslovenia con una diferencia de cinco años: "El libro de las cosas" y "El libro de los cuerpos". Los títulos anticipan una probable complementariedad que ahora presentamos a los lectores hispanohablantes, antecedidos por un prólogo escudriñador del filósofo Rok Benin. Benin señala tres dimensiones en "El libro de las cosas": el cuerpo, el lenguaje y el mutismo, "pese a que la no-relación entre el cuerpo y el lenguaje sea un enigma irresoluble, se convierte en el verdadero problema cuando se introduce el tercer eslabón: donde las...

DICE siempre algo, besa, camina. Escribe largos cantos sobre la tierra. Busca entre las hojas dulces de un limonero. Va. Viene. Interroga. Enloquece. Negra, la hormiga.

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada, featuring an essay by Kristin Dykstra. "Omar Perez Lopez (1964-) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba. A former journalist, Perez has explored a wide array of literary genres, particularly poetry, translation, and the essay...At the center of SOMETHING OF THE SACRED is the exploration of displacement. Perez sees poetic metaphor as 'the subtle displacement of something objective'...His apparent strangeness, particularly in his varied uses of Zen traditions, ...

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...