VERSOS CON TINTA DE ESPEJOS

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...

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...

La maestra de miradas es una mujer formada por la emoción inspiradora despertada por muchas otras, desnudada aquí a través de instantes, por fugaces que fueran.

PAPELES PERDIDOS Y VUELTOS A ENCONTRAR Estos trazos, estas líneas y palabras fueron creadas en libertad, en tiempos en los que con Juan volábamos cruzando de norte a sur nuestro continente. Fue así que entre retornar del exilio, y tantas idas y venidas de la vida, quedaron casi perdida en el olvido. Perdidas para que el encierro y la pandemia las vuelvan a encontrar. Aquí nuestro tributo a la poesía y el tributo de los poetas a la pintura que desde los primeros libros se supieron acompañar. Es para el deleite del lector que en el 2020 salen a la luz unidos una vez más. Nora Patrich