Amor y Desamor

"En simples palabras" es un libro de poemas con estilo y espíritu libre. Combina poemas escuetos y otros no tantos. Transmite en simples palabras, emociones y reflexiones complejas.

Transcurran los dias de mi adolescencia Cuando empecé a sentir extraños sentimientos de angustia y de dolor Inespicablemente no había nada externo que lo ocasionara y cada vez era peor Sentía ganas de volar de escaparme entre verdades y mentiras solo para justificar mis emociones que en ocasiones también ahuyentaban asta mis peores temores Y no fue hasta que la muerte toco a nuestra puerta llevandoce lo mas valioso a mi adorada mamá luz Sufri como nunca y aunque han pasado 26 años aún me hace falta Ahí en ese momento todo se agrabo la verdadera soledad se sentía por doquier...

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed—having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere—is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican...