A las puertas de Esmirna

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...

Canticos de Lago de la escritora puertorriquena Zoe Jimenez Corretjer, es un poemario donde se conjuran los elementos orientales de la poesia china y japonesa con la metafora sutil y existencial de la naturaleza. Como senala Isaac Donoso sobre este libro: ..".desde una perspectiva taoista...Los objetos naturales se convierten en objetos de reflexion interna de caracter existencial." "Es la articulacion de un concepto filosofico que vertebra la poetica del libro, el concepto de Palus Maesta..." (Prologo a Canticos del Lago). La Dra. Eugenia Toledo Keyser apunta sobre este libro que: Canticos...

Excerpt from Jardines Lejanos: Jardines Galantes, Jardines Misticos, Jardines Dolientes En el caliz de la fuente solloza el agua fragante, agua de musica y lagrima, nacida bajo la hierba. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, ...

Sobre la densidad de la palabra siempre está implícita la melodía y el silencio.El poeta sabe que ha de mover sus pensamientos sobre un abismo que puede ofrecer todos los temores o todas las venturas