Ninfas Y Rosas

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 ...

All the poems in this work are those that the author has published between 1995 and 2001. Some poems that were later made into songs appear in both versions. As in the previous Inventario books, this one starts with the most recent poems and concludes with the oldest, perhaps with the hopes 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.

...Apoyada en las piedras del camino... con los ojos cerrados, recorro la vida... No, no están cerrados, veo tantas cosas... ¡La hermosura y la belleza de este Mundo La Tierra! Tenemos que cuidarla, amarla... Ella, seguirá viva... se regenerará sola y será feliz. Si seguimos así... desapareceremos de ella... nosotros, los seres humanos. ...Veo crueldades, injusticias, guerras, seres inocentes que mueren... Porque ese Gobierno Oculto nos destruye... Hemos venido a ayudar...a Amar... ¡A ser felices! Cultivemos nuestro interior... y compartamos esos dones que todos tenemos... ¡Con...

Poemas de amor y sentimiento, un bálsamo a las heridas. Poemas de amor y sentimiento, un claro en el arroyo. Poemas de amor y sentimiento, caricias de sonrisas. 333, desde los cielos, son los ángeles que hablan en los versos. 333, desde el silencio, son los ángeles murmurando cada beso. 333, al firmamento, Dios camina en la poesía, se transforma en cada vía que sustenta el alma mía.