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Fernando Pessoa (Lisboa, 1888-1935) es posiblemente el poeta europeo más leído y reseñado del siglo XX. Su personalidad poliédrica, a más de ocho décadas de su muerte, sigue imantando la atención de lectores de todos los continentes. Pero no es la integridad de su universo subjetivo lo que causa tal fascinación, sino todo lo contrario: el distanciamiento del Ser frente a sí mismo, la fragmentación de identidades y una crítica de la vida cotidiana que asume lo absurdo como omnipresente, son algunos de los atributos más notorios de su poesía. El lector, mediante la exploración de...

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...

Los antólogos Manuel Suárez y Cayo González nos guían por un viaje por España a través de la mirada extraordinaria de una rica y vasta nómica de poetas: Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, José de Espronceda, Garcilaso de la Vega, Rafael Alberti ...

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada, featuring an essay by Kristin Dykstra. "Omar Perez Lopez (1964-) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba. A former journalist, Perez has explored a wide array of literary genres, particularly poetry, translation, and the essay...At the center of SOMETHING OF THE SACRED is the exploration of displacement. Perez sees poetic metaphor as 'the subtle displacement of something objective'...His apparent strangeness, particularly in his varied uses of Zen traditions, ...