Lunas de Bohemia

I am honored to dedicate my poetry in English and Spanish to the world and specially in these difficult times that we have . I know that my experiences that I have had since my early childhood have given me solutions for many of the challenges that our world faces today. I support the protection of the environment since I believe that it is our duty to protect what God has given us, and not to to be destructive to flora and fauna; and that wars between humans should be resolved in a peaceful and cordial way. I also address homelessness, drug abuse, abuse of the elderly , and to prayerfully...

El Corsario es, ante todo, un poema autobiográfico que narra las aventuras de un tal Conrad, un corsario rechazado por la sociedad -no así por las mujeres- debido a su comportamiento escandaloso. El poema inmediatamente atrajo la atención del público debido a la personalidad arrasadora de Byron, incluso algunos adeptos a la estadística afirman que se llegaron a vender diez mil copias durante su primer día en la calle. El éxito de este poema fue tal que terminó siendo adaptado a ópera y ballet.

¿Qué hace un jovencito universitario en un conservador país latinoamericano cuando no puede profesar abiertamente sus sentimientos a la chica de quien se ha enamorado? El joven ingenia convertirlos en letras y así logra expresarlos artificiosamente a su amada tarde tras tarde sin que nadie, ni la musa misma, se entere del verdadero destinatario. Con el tiempo, en su cuaderno los apuntes van creciendo -como el amor mismo- y la relación se fortalece. El primer grupo de 50 apuntes que dedica a su musa lo titula EX CORDE: Ideas y poemas, pero al ser insuficiente idea completar "100 sueños"...

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...