Suspiros de la Vida

"Selección elemental de textos del V Encuentro Internacional, X Nacional de Poetas "Nicanor de la Fuente", Chiclayo 2002."

This bilingual anthology, Cantos to Encounters, is a selection of the poetic works of Luis Alberto Ambroggio, the highly-respected Argentinian-American poet who currently represents Hispanic writing in the United States. The poems quickly reveal how the encounters related to the poet serve as symbols for numerous topics and people: for war, family, women, mythology, immigrants; and for poets such as Darío, García Lorca, Vallejo, Whitman, and Benedetti, as well as for himself. These poems place their author between the year 1987, when he was starting his poetic journey with some poems from...

A collection of fifty poems which celebrate the universal human experience and renew the late author's quest for self, community, the past, and the continuity of the dead through the living

Lucía es pasado es un libro de cambio. En él, al ojo de la mente que se encontraba al principio a oscuras, pero cómodo en su ceguera ante la verdad, se le presenta como un rayo la luz punzante del conocimiento que lo abre y le obliga a ver. El pasado es encarnado por Lucía, que, a pesar de no estar ya, constituye una parte esencial de Luz, la representación del presente despierto. Ante tal descubrimiento, ya no hay posibilidad de volver a la apacible negrura de la ignorancia, pues, incluso cerrando los ojos, “Atraviesa los párpados la luz, / despiadada verdad sin quietud”. Sólo...