Octubre

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

La mano que escribe retoma su antiguo oficio con pequeños recortes de fantasía y realidad que confluyen en bellas postales que no tienen más que tiempo que perder. Un encuentro sutil con recuerdos, objetos, canciones y personajes que, sin motivo aparente, tal vez, algo nos quieren decir. Femenino y masculino convergen en un texto intergénero que mezcla poesía, prosa poética y micro-cuento Acertijos, magias, sueños de estaciones inmemoriales cobran vida junto a la antigua correspondencia. Algunos vestigios han llegado hasta aquí.

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...

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...