Los problemas verso-ripiosos y rimas animales del abuelo

...Leer poesía nunca pasará de moda, porque la moda está basada en la poesía. Así como no pasa de moda el amor, la sonrisa o el beso...

Gustavo de Maeztu pintó en 1917 dos cuadros fulminantes: son "La fuerza" y "El orden", oscuro matrimonio que copula sobre el pobre jergón de los humildes. Lamen ochenta años con su lengua los lienzos donde el 98 fue dejando su protesta civil...

"RENOVATIO" is the 3rd collection of Bonafide Rojas & the 2nd publication from Grand Concourse Press. This collection of poems deal with the beauty of reinvention in life & in art, coming of age, dealing with death, fatherhood, the impermanence of our mortality, the realization of interconnectivity & the quiet beauty of solitude. "It's difficult to explain what Rojas has done in RENOVATIO. Like pulling a rabbit from a hat, it seems impossible to yank words from the stronghold of self like he has. But unlike pulling a rabbit from a hat, this is not an illusion. This is not a trick. Rojas...

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...