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NO hay miedo que atenaza la libertad de un pueblo, NO hay amenaza que provoque tal desvelo. Porque NO hay taza ni taza y media. NO hay tenaza, no mordaza, si de piel para dentro mando yo. (La ley innata). —Porque podrán silenciar nuestra voz, pero nunca nuestros corazones—.

Una de las colecciones capitales del padre del modernismo en español «Y parece que el hondo mirar cosas dijera, especiosas y ungidas de miel y de veneno.» Para muchos, Rubén Darío es el padre del modernismo. Los poetas parnasianos y simbolistas franceses ejercieron una gran influencia en su obra, pero a partir de Prosas profanas (1896 y 1901) el estilo pionero de Azul (1888, revisado en 1890) se define para alcanzar nuevas alturas en Cantos de vida y esperanza (1905), considerado el mejor ejemplo de su poesía. Aquí el poeta vuelve a sus temas recurrentes para afirmar que el arte...

Couplets on the death of his father is the masterpiece of Jorge Manrique and has made him one of the essential authors of Spanish poetry. Conceived as an elegy, medieval elements are combined with others that announce the emerging Renaissance. And, what is most significant, they are a celebration of life amidst the Quattrocento tradition of death.

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...