Trazar la salvaguarda

Poems deal with Mexican American culture, mythology, and history, and evoke the author's impressions of the Texas landscape

Excerpt from La Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; ...

Los poemas que Luis Pellegrini nos ofrece aquí se ajustan sin concesiones a la declaración de principios que confiesa en su Arte poética: "Como un lápiz de fósforo sobre papel de lija/así debiera ser la poesía. No como un agua que se escurre, que no recuerda nadie." Hijo del viento presenta dos partes: Cuestión de tiempo y otros poemas y Pequeños poemas en prosa. Con rasgos formales ligeramente diferenciados, todos los textos tienen una misma voz y están construidos con papel de lija. El bosque, el viento, los animales, la muerte, la noche, el silencio, son algunos de los elementos...

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 ...