Amoroso Paraso Y Otros Poemas / Loving Paradise And Other Poems

A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden's new translation does full justice to Vallejo's complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of more than...

Poetry. Latinx Studies. Second Edition. In 2010 Hugo García Manríquez set out to work through the North American Free Trade Agreement in Spanish and English. The result is a bilingual artifact that interrupts and re-politicizes NAFTA's neoliberal language, becoming a space of transnational encounter that strangely falls on the same continuum as the work of 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt--a continuum upon which the institutions of Law and Science dream of stabilizing the flux of contingency into the language of the market. No longer univocal in meaning, the remains in...

La intención principal de esta antología, que reúne a destacadas poetas norteamericanas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, es la de explorar la voz lírica de la mujer en un contexto en el que, pese a su relativa abundancia, se percibe una tradición escasa. Como figuras universales de los siglos anteriores, aparecen Safo, Santa Teresa, Sor Juana, Elizabeth Barret Browning y Emily Dickinson, como las únicas trascendentes. Para entender la poesía escrita por mujeres en Estados Unidos, es necesario tener primero una noción de las formas y figuras creadas en el siglo XIX, ya que son los...

Spiritual and possessing a devout wisdom, this masterpiece of poetry of the Persian Sufi tradition addresses some of the most fundamental human preoccupations—including the relationship between earthly and divine love—and argues that not only is God the beloved of humankind, but that humankind is God's beloved. Espiritual y poseyendo una sabiduría devota, esta obra maestra de la poesía de la tradición sufi persiana, abarca algunas de las preocupaciones humanas más fundamentales—incluyendo la relación entre el amor humano y el divino—y sostiene, no sólo que Dios es el Amado del...