Aristas ancestrales

Gustavo de Maeztu pintó en 1917 dos cuadros fulminantes: son "La fuerza" y "El orden", oscuro matrimonio que copula sobre el pobre jergón de los humildes. Lamen ochenta años con su lengua los lienzos donde el 98 fue dejando su protesta civil...

En este poemario de Marcos Fabián Herrera, a través de la representación de lo insólito transcrito en oficios de artesanos minuciosos, confinados a los márgenes (equilibristas, campaneros, luthiers, pajareros, relojeros ...), los héroes se desploman irremediablemente para mutarse en ídolos caídos o en villanos atrapados entre los espejismos de los sueños. Su poesía en Oficios del destierro reafirma su fuerza en el reconocimiento de la sórdida realidad de un espacio vital en ruinas. Para ello, a decir de Blanca Varela, la voz poética le “da nombre a todas las sombras, a todos los ...

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...

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...