Triptico [Tres Lustros de Poesia]

De los muchos colombianos que conocen y cantan aquello de “Oye; bajo las ruinas de mis pasiones, / en el fondo de esta alma que ya no alegras, / entre polvo de sueños y de ilusiones / brotan entumecidas mis flores negras”, son pocos los que saben que estos versos hacen parte de la obra poética de Julio Flórez (1867-1923), el más importante de los escritores que conformaron, en plena Guerra de los Mil Días, la famosa Gruta Simbólica. Julio Flórez es quizás el poeta colombiano que con mayor vigor ha calado en los sentimientos de nuestro pueblo. Sobreviviente del romanticismo,...

Gioconda Belli selecciona en este libro los mejores poemas de su amplia producción poética. Una celebración de la palabra poética y un muestrario vibrante de la vitalidad artística de la autora, de su búsqueda incesante de la identidad femenina y latinoamericana. «Gioconda Belli, novelista, poeta, autora de memorias, se ha establecido como uno de los grandes escritores de la literatura en español.» SALMAN RUSHDIE.

Conceived as one poem, Myung Mi Kim's Dura is a whirling experimental symphony of images, forms and rhythms assembled and juxtaposed to translate the experience and gestures of the Korean immigrant woman surviving in America at the end of the twentieth century. Its language negotiates a past -- "How was it to be the first arrivals in rows and columns" -- as well as a present -- "A perceiver without a state", and has already gained Kim recognition as among the most moving and important "translators" in contemporary poetry.

This expanded edition of Ruben Medina's 2010 chapbook Nomadic Nation / Nacion Nomada includes a new introduction by the author about his poetics as well as new translations of work originally written in Spanish. Composed in English, Spanish and Spanglish, these important poems reflect on the lives of immigrants/emigrants, our restless spirits, and the human journey: "We are at the periphery of the center / and at the center of the periphery / at the same time." Writes Medina in "Una poetica norteada" "There is no purity in language. There never has been. ... Interference can at times simply...