FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by Jon Thompson English and Spanish "The Magnetic Brackets ... is one of the liveliest and truest poetical testaments that a reader can tackle in these times of disbelief, of half-truths, of vacuity and passivity in thought. For this is one more gift from the book: where thought and feeling are perfectly merged." -ANTONIO COLINAS JESUS LOSADA (Zamora, 1962) is the author of eleven collections of poetry, among them Huerto cerrado del amor (2nd prize, Premio Adonais, 1994), La noche del funambulista (Premio Provincia, 1998), and Corazon frontera (Premio "San Juan de...
FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by Jon Thompson English and Spanish "The Magnetic Brackets ... is one of the liveliest and truest poetical testaments that...
Antonio Machado is, without a doubt, the father of modern Spanish lyric poetry: a bridge that stretches between Becquer, Ruben Dario and the generation of Jimenez, Lorca, Alberti, Guillen and Aleixandre. An early visit to Paris and an engagement with Symbolism, and its Spanish equivalent, modernism, in the shape of Ruben Dario, was to determine his course as a poet. Machado, however, unlike many of the French symbolists and perhaps because he was Spanish, never turned his back on common reality. Rather, reality and natural images were as sacred to him as mysterious cyphers, ickering shadows...
Antonio Machado is, without a doubt, the father of modern Spanish lyric poetry: a bridge that stretches between Becquer, Ruben Dario and the generatio...
En 'El crujido de la amapola al sangrar', Luis Ingelmo recoge lo mejor de su produccion critica y teorica entre 2007 y 2015. Lector impenitente y eficacisimo, este castellano que durante anos fue profesor en Chicago parece incapaz de renunciar a dejar por escrito las impresiones obtenidas de sus lecturas. Experto conocedor de la literatura norteamericana, pero tambien de la anglosajona en general, y de la espanola -y de la hispanoamericana-, con 'El crujido' aporta un panorama personal pero muy completo y actual de la narrativa y la poesia de los Estados Unidos, ademas de un buen manojo de...
En 'El crujido de la amapola al sangrar', Luis Ingelmo recoge lo mejor de su produccion critica y teorica entre 2007 y 2015. Lector impenitente y efic...
Amorgos Notebook is a collection from 2007 that won for Elsa Cross Mexico's most prestigious poetry prize. Elsa Cross' work over the past several decades has demonstrated a fascination with Greece, and this sequence takes its departure from the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades, home of remarkable ancient sculptures, and spectacular terrain.
Amorgos Notebook is a collection from 2007 that won for Elsa Cross Mexico's most prestigious poetry prize. Elsa Cross' work over the past several deca...
