Naturaleza muerta

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...

Since 1931, Buesa was a writer for all the main radio companies in Cuba, as well as program director and scriptwriter for television and cinema.

La casa de la poesía, entra y sale por lo recovecos del habla. Carmen Berenguer desliza voces que configuran pedacitos de historias que se cuentan por medio de una poesía narrada. Registra a Valparaíso lleno de señaléticas que indican desplazamientos por sus cerros y bares, por las noches furiosas donde poesía y poetas son la misma imagen. Un habla marginalizada que balbucea a ratos territorios propios del desecho oficial. Allí la subalternidad de Brenda se llena de múltiples lucecitas que apenas iluminan la noche bohemia. Sólo los labios manchados con rojo van dando cuenta de una...

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...