Cuando el monarca espera

Cuando amanece, los niños refugiados corren al centro del temple: Europa parece ciega, escucha sorda. Si pueden llegar a las puertas, aceptará 400 mil refugiados para que hagan gustosamente mondadientes para las ruedas dentadas del capitalismo. Estarán hambrientos, sedientos pero aún vivos si pueden pasar las olas del Egeo, los garrotes de la policía griega, las vallas de alambre húngaras, los ferrocarriles macedonios, si pueden llegar a Europa.

A selection of poetry, published between 1995 and 2001, features poems that later were made into songs that appear in both versions, and includes works presented in reverse chronological order, with the idea that the reader, by having access to this work through the newest and nearest door, will soon be tempted to open other doors, as if doing an inventory.

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...

Este libro describe muchos seres, cosas y portentosos fenomenos de la naturaleza. Muestra las interacciones indispensables del agua y el aire para la existencia de todo ser vivo. Se refiere a una miriada de sustancias y materias que suplen todas las necesidades de seres humanos y la casi infinita variedad de utiles o bellisimos animales y plantas del planeta."