Viviendo en un sueño

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...

El talismán es fetiche, quitamiedos; el talismán invoca y atrae la gracia, otorga poderes mágicos. Su aura protectora se escribe como sortilegio y ritual para ahuyentar a la muerte; su poder es escudo frente al desaliento, consuelo para los afligidos. En estas páginas, los talismanes son poemas que Edda Armas tornea con ternura y tino; amuletos compuestos por palabras que parecen esconder la pócima mágica para mirar lo cotidiano con un encanto renovado.

Poesía mágica para caminar sin miedos. Aquí dentro, el agua de lluvia reparte bondad, hay un cuaderno en blanco bajo el sol de otoño, aquí dentro está tu historia de estrella con una vida de seda. Súbete a este pino para practicar voto de silencio porque, muchas veces, es mejor escribir que hablar.

This famous and universally loved poem for daily living has inspired many generations of Buddhists and non-Buddhists since it was first composed in the 8th century by the famous Indian Buddhist master Shantideva. This new translation, made under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, conveys the great lucidity and poetic beauty of the original, while preserving its full impact and spiritual insight. Reading these verses slowly, while contemplating their meaning, has a profoundly liberating effect on the mind. The poem invokes special positive states of mind, moves us from suffering and...