Pero

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...

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...

Se trata de una obra poética. La primera parte son poemas de amor, cortos e íntimos, seguidos por una elegía, a la muerte de mi padre y una tercera parte, que son versos que compuse en mi adolescencia.

El oro de los tigres (1972) es un libro de poesía escrito cuando Borges, de más de setenta años, era ya un autor consagrado. Están aquí las preocupaciones filosóficas que le fueron reveladas de niño frente a un tablero de ajedrez, y sus autores preferidos, los que ha leído y que repite. Están también el tigre, como símbolo del valor y de lo divino, el sueño, las espadas, el espejo, la patria, los mayores y la muerte. Y aparece además un tema más intimista, la ceguera, que si bien tiene algo de clausura, es al mismo tiempo una liberación, una soledad propicia a las invenciones,...