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I am delighted to see this second book in the Bridges Series come to print. I originally conceived of this series of books to be a bridge between two cultures, a bridge between colleagues, friends and fellow writers - two Cubans and two Canadians in each book. Ever since the inception of the CCLA in 2004 we have tried to live up to our mandate: The mandate of the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance is to advance cultural solidarity between Canada and Cuba through the creative expression of poetry, prose, art and photography. This book will evidence our ongoing success. For me personally this book...

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...

Un volumen único con todos los versos independientes de Cervantes. El presente volumen recoge la producción poética exenta de Miguel de Cervantes, es decir, el grueso de la lírica que no incluyó en sus novelas y obras teatrales. Destaca, de toda ella, el único poema narrativo del autor, que da título al libro, una suerte de relato mítico y autobiográfico en el que Cervantes viaja al monte Parnaso para encontrarse con el dios Apolo. Esta edición da cuenta del aspecto menos conocido del irrepetible talento del autor más universal de nuestras letras. La investigadora de la Universidad ...

Escribir como escupir es una torsión más en la particular experiencia vital de la escritura del autor. Es la toma de consciencia del acto escatológico de escribir, excretar, escupir... desollarse. La escritura se muestra aquí como un acto contaminado en sí mismo, ajeno a toda pureza.