Las poéticas visionarias

Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words is Lucha CorpiÍs pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in Spanish and expertly translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, the poems fairly bloom off the page in a display of lyric virtuosity. Corpi is the first of the Mexican American poets to explore through deeply personal and intimate feelings potentially explosive political topics, transculturation, the role of women, her commitment to social change, and the grand themes of love and death. Highly sophisticated, enchanting, and well...

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...

Marelys Valencia (Matanzas, 1970) es doctora en Literatura y Cultura Latinoamericanas. Su primer volumen de poesía, Piélago de sombras, fue finalista del Premio Poeta en Nueva York, convocado por Valparaíso Ediciones. Reside en los Estados Unidos y es profesora en Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame.

"El libro está integrado por ocho poemas de variada extensión y se cierra con un "Así sea", equivalente al "Amén" de las oraciones cristianas, lo cual le transfiere un sentido de rito sagrado. Tres voces líricas, la del poeta, la de la "amada" y la del "amado" desarrollan el tema en una sucesión de diálogos que no conspiran con la esencia lírica pues anuncian la forma lírico-dramática de la última etapa de plena madurez de Eunice Odio. Con Los elementos terrestres es obvio que Eunice Odio se integra definitivamente en los movimientos de vanguardia al interpretar los temas a varios...