Circo alegría

Desde los estudios de literatura comparada analiza el uso de la ecfrasis, "la representación verbal de una representación visual", en la poesía. En una primera parte, la autora amplía y actualiza la discusión sobre este concepto y sus distintas concepcion, para luego analizar diez poemas escritos en el siglo xx que "hablan" sobre obras visuales. Relaciona así a William Carlos Williams y Seamus Heaney con Brueghel; a Rafael Alberti con El Bosco; a John Ashbery con el Parmigianino, Ernst, Picasso y Miró; a Margaret Atwood (pasando por Browning y Shelley) con Manet; a Derek Walcott con...

This illustrated anthology presents over 43 stories and legends from 20 countries, spanning the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America. It allows readers to delve deeply into the collective memory of Latin America and better understand its secrets and people.

Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest, most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother taken away by royal guards still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it's Lei they're after.

A story about a boy with a heart too big for one color alone. A little boy attempts to answer one of grown-ups' all-time favorite questions: "What's your favorite color?" But with so many wonderful colors to choose from, he doesn't know how to answer. He loves his pink sparkly tutu, bright red roses, soft yellow baby doll pajamas, and big, orange basketball. How will he ever pick?