Versos para soñar despiertos

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...

Amalgama, la palabra, está definida en el diccionario como la unión o mezcla de cosas de naturaleza contraria o distinta. Y eso es justamente Amalgama, el libro: un inventario que Robin Myers levanta para luego recordar no sólo las cosas en sí, sino la sensación de asombro al encontrarlas todas juntas. Con una sensibilidad poco común, la poeta observa el mundo y va recogiendo lo que encuentra para darle después un lugar a través del lenguaje. "Si tengo con qué escribir", dice Myers, "sé que voy a detenerme a poner atención, a buscar entender cómo las cosas que me rodean se hablan...

Selected with special dedication by the knowing eye of a beloved Colombian poet, this anthology of impassioned poetry is unique within the genre, given that each poem represents a different place in the spectrum of desire—ranging from tormenting lust to the delightful pleasure of a simple "I love you." Within these pages is the loving lyricism and sentiment of such poets as Tennessee Williams, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Walt Whitman, André Bréton, and Dylan Thomas. Escogidos con especial dedicación por el ojo conocedor de un poeta adorado colombiano, este recetario pasional constituye una...

Excerpt from Poesias de D. Luís Sergio Sanchez, de la A. Græco-Latina, C. Y D. Del Instituto de Caceres About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do,...