Poemas Del Corazón

Poemas que nacen de una voz reveladora, quien se para frente a lo impenetrable y le habla, dialoga con su silencio. Jorge Aulicino escribe en el prólogo: "Si se debiera acudir al epítome de la poesía nacida en los setenta en Buenos Aires y de su despliegue, habría que leer, entre unas pocas opciones, la poesía de Irene Gruss. Antes de la guerra, fue poesía de posguerra. Allí se habló y se habla de las cosas en su espíritu, más que del espíritu de las cosas. Todo es aquí azar convertido en convencimiento". "Hay quien escribe poemas en un muro y luego se despide, tira la carbonilla...

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...

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.