Delirios de Juventud

A través de la figura de Teresa de Ávila, Minerva Margarita Villarreal enuncia una poesía íntima y fervorosa, pero a la vez cercana y cotidiana. Las maneras del agua, obra ganadora del Premio Bellas Artes de Poesía Aguascalientes 2016, combina poemas cortos con laude constantes donde lo divino cobra varias formas.

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...

A selection of poetry by Francisco Brines, Spain’s most eminent living poet. A fully bilingual text with preface. In November 2020 Brines was awarded the prestigious Cervantes Prize for Literature, widely regarded as equivalent to the Nobel, for a ‘poetic work that goes from the carnal and the purely human to the metaphysical, to the spiritual, towards an aspiration of beauty and immortality’, according to the jury. Translation was supported by the Ministry of Culture in Spain. Una selección de la poesía de Francisco Brines, el poeta contemporáneo español más importante. Todos los...

Al soneto, se dice, le robaron la libertad. Pero no es cierto: la libertad no es hacer lo que uno quiere, sino lo que uno puede dentro de parámetros determinados. Cada civilización entiende esa libertad y la expresa a su manera y, por eso, cada civilización también luce su propia tradición de sonetistas. Los ingleses tienen a Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Rossetti y Hardy; los franceses, a Baudelaire, Verlaine y Mallarmé; los portugueses, a Miranda, Camões y Quental; y los alemanes, a Rilke y Hofmannsthal. Nosotros, en castellano, somos más fecundos y, acaso, más efectistas....