Nadie me lo vino a contar... ni espero que lo hagan

'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Lemonade and Black Is King. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds...

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...

Nuestra antología podría acogerse al tipo denominado Extravagante, en el sentido literal del término, puesto que las autoras que figuran en ella (Ada Negri, Elsa Morante, Dacia Maraini, Armanda Guiducci, Lalla Romano) no siguen ni un orden cronológico, ni generacional y sus compiladores también son heterogéneos por procedencia y formación (Giuliana Antonella Giacobbe, de la Universidad de Oviedo, Caterina Duraccio de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Eva María Moreno Lago, de la Universidad de Sevilla, Marina Bettaglio, de la Universidad de Victoria, Canadá y Daniel Raffini, de la...

Las páginas de este libro de poemas, como su mismo título indica, discurren sobre unas tierras castellanas, que llenaron mi infancia, parte de mi juventud, mi madurez y mi senectud. Comienza con un poema sobre el río Cega que surca la tierra de pinares y los campos que pertenecen a la villa de Cuéllar. Continúa hablando, en términos poéticos, de lugares y vistas singulares de Cuéllar, sus torres, campanarios, castillo, arcos defensivos o de entrada, tanto a la ciudad como a la ciudadela, cubos defensivos, e iglesias o conventos ; sin olvidar sus charcas, lomas, montes, alamedas,...