Poemas escogidos y otros nuevos

Poetry. Spanish Language. De John M. Bennett, dice César Espinosa, "Hiperprolífico. Irremediable 'hombre orquestra'; es decir, porque desde un principio destacó por su sapiencia y dominio del oficio." [Esc áner Cultural, ago. 2009] Con este tomo Bennett añade a su creciente obra en español con poemas y poemas visuales escritos en Guatemala y México. Es una poesía pasional, surrealista, íntima, social, y experimentalista en grado mayor.

Winner of a 2002 American Book Award Winner of the 2002 Colorado Book Award in Poetry "The natural voice at work in the poetry sings of one human life as if it were our own. I loved listening." —Rita Kiefer, author of Nesting Doll "This just may be one of the best books of poetry I have ever read. . . . This is the kind of writing that give poetry a good name." —Mike Nobles, Tulsa World "Abeyta's poetry amazingly captures this struggle with poems that are simultaneously tortured and thankful, celebratory and melancholy, earthly and ethereal. . . . Poet Abeyta beautifully captures the...

Partir con las manos libres en los bolsillos y con el vaivén errante del caminante que se desprende de sus posesiones. Y con esa imposibilidad de quedarse quieto ir hacia la búsqueda de un tesoro oculto bajo el fondo de las dunas o del mar. Emprender el camino es añorar lo que dejas atrás y proyectar a la vez un mundo nuevo. Saberse de paso es el movimiento evanescente, el deambular ligero por las ciudades y veredas, es escapar del cielo enlutado, del sentimiento tormentoso, del tedio, de la estupidez de los sensatos y gozar de esta alegría profunda que se tiene siempre al andar, donde...

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...