Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Caribbean & Latin American

"The Poetry of Stone Forest" includes photos of the author with: Historian Maria Rotworowski, USA Poet Laureate Donald Hall, Congressman Mauricio Mulder, Mayor of Cerro de Pasco Tito Valle, and Senior Member of the Journalist College, in Huancayo, Adelmo Huamani. Dennis creates here, a collection of remarkable and timeless poetry, original in all its refreshing forces (with notes, and commentary on 'Stone Forest' high up in the Andes in Cerro de Pasco; one of the mysteries of the world and a wonder of Peru); he adds in this collection, legends, about Stone Forest: packed with photos and...

Salvadoran revolutionary poet Roque Dalton reflects on his time in Prague, where he witnessed the popular uprising and the Soviet invasion in 1968. This book won the Casa de las Americas Literary Award and established Dalton among the best young poets in Latin America. Published by the Roque Dalton Publishing Project.

In 1898 Tahirassawichi went to Washington
"only to speak about religion"
(as he told the American government)
only to preserve the prayers.
And the Capitol did not impress him."
--from "Tahirassawichi in Washington"

Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet, priest, and revolutionary, foresees a new order for humanity. Here in his Indian poems, Father Cardenal interweaves myth, legend, history, and contemporary reality to speak to many subjects, including the assaults on the Iroquois Nation, the political and cultural life of ancient Mexico, the Ghost Dance movement, the...

This graceful translation and bilingual edition, now in paperback, is the first to bring English readers a representative sampling of the poetry Delmira Agustini published before her untimely death on July 6, 1914 at the age of twenty-seven. Translated by native Uruguayan Alejandro Caceres and including work from each of Agustini's four published books, " Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros" is a response to a resurgent interest not just in the poems but in the passionate and daring woman behind them and the social and political world she inhabited.

Delmira Agustini was...

Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its...