Antología Poética

Una vida de amor y transformación es lo que aprendemos cuando empezamos a caminar con Jesucristo. Él es el que ama nuestra alma y anhela llenarnos de esperanza, paz y confianza, su mano está extendida como un regalo especial, su dulce aroma embrega nuestro ser y va aromatizando nuestra vida junto a Él. Dulce nombre es el nombre de Jesús, debemos aceptar su obsequio que viene directamente del cielo. A veces llegamos al punto en que debemos elegir qué camino tomar. Hacer lo que nos dicta nuestro corazón o si dejamos que Dios haga su voluntad en nuestra vida. El hijo de Dios derramó su...

Poeta del mar, del extrañamiento, del viaje, Nicos Cavadías (1910-1975) es uno de los mayores poetas que Grecia ha dado en el siglo XX. Su obra -comparable en popularidad a la de un García Lorca o un Machado en España- ha gozado del favor del pueblo griego y las numerosas versiones musicales de sus poemas lo han integrado ya en su memoria colectiva. "La Cruz del Sur" -título que toma nombre de uno de sus poemas más celebres y versionados- recopila su poesía completa, integrada por los poemarios "Marabú" (1933), "Calima" (1947) y "De través" (1975), así como otros poemas de diversa...

Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of...

Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico—few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes major international writers like Alberto ...

This famous and universally loved poem for daily living has inspired many generations of Buddhists and non-Buddhists since it was first composed in the 8th century by the famous Indian Buddhist master Shantideva. This new translation, made under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, conveys the great lucidity and poetic beauty of the original, while preserving its full impact and spiritual insight. Reading these verses slowly, while contemplating their meaning, has a profoundly liberating effect on the mind. The poem invokes special positive states of mind, moves us from suffering and...