Trazar la salvaguarda

The Martin Fierro, the classic argentine poem, has been the subject of studies and discussions ever since the issuing of its first part edition -el gaucho Martin Fierro- in 1873, and there have been many ensuing editions, including some still available, to prove it. This new edition of both parts aims to render a balanced startpoint to the study of the literary piece. This edition is based on the original texts: El gaucho Martin Fierro Imprenta de La Pampa, 1872, and La vuelta de Martin Fierro Libreria del Plata, 1879, and includes no less than 535 lexicographic notes, conveniently placed at...

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

Este es un libro que derrota soledades. Cada página cumple la poética misión de acompañarnos en un viaje que nos revela, paso a paso, la trayectoria de nosotros mismos, como si estuviéramos frente a verdades nuestras, amadas desde siempre. No estamos solos, parece decirnos en un susurro la autora. La muerte es un pretexto de la luz. He aquí otra de las enseñanzas que empezamos a sentir, más que saber, con la lectura de estos poemas. Porque nada eterno puede ser conocido sin la grandeza de las pequeñas cosas que nos asisten día a día: vivir. Así la lectura del último poema hace la ...

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...