An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers.
-The meticulous and loving catalog of moments, animals, plants, beings, suns, and nocturnal revelations that this poetry offers us constitutes - in my way of thinking--a terrible oracle, and at last a shout of hope. To say it in a simpler, more direct way, it is a prayer.---Alvaro Mutis
-Alberto Blanco's deep poetry inhabits both the world and the universe of imagination; these poems shed their own light and fly on their own wings.---Michael McClure
Born in Mexico...
An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers.
Light from a Nearby Window introduces a new generation of poets who have become a driving force in Mexican literature today.
Until quite recently, contemporary Mexican poetry has been little-known and virtually unavailable to English-speaking readers. This bilingual anthology includes twenty-one poets--twelve men and nine women--all of who have received national and international recognition. In poems about sexuality and spirituality, politics and marginalization, history and tradition, urban and rural life, they write about the unique experience of being Mexican at the end of...
Light from a Nearby Window introduces a new generation of poets who have become a driving force in Mexican literature today.
