Amor sin olvido

In her ode to “The Umbrella,” Viola Canales remembers a family story about her mother, who every Saturday as a child “popped open her prized child’s bright umbrella / as did her little sister / and followed their mother’s adult one / from their Paloma barrio home / to downtown Main Street McAllen / walking like ducks in a row / street after street,” until one Saturday “the littlest one disappeared / inside the wilderness of Woolworth’s.” Warm-hearted recollections of family members are woven through this collection of 54 poems, in English and Spanish, which uses the images...

"Il titolo dell'opera, 'Africano', implica un viatico romantico, simbolico ed evocativo: il nome di un vento che trasporti questi componimenti in fuga, verso altri territori, altre culture, lettori, autori. All'interno di 'Africano' si susseguono, in ordine alfabetico: Anna Algieri con la raccolta Liriche in libertà; Maria Costa con Quello che il cuore mi dice; Mario Dainese con Frantumi di vita; Lisa Di Giovanni con La quinta parete; Monica Lautieri con Il giorno della camelia bianca; Filippo Pistore con Ricordi dal profondo." (Tratto dalla prefazione di Giuseppe Aletti)

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 ...

El esplendor y el miedo explora la avidez por la vida y la certidumbre agobiante de la muerte. El poeta sabe que no puede resolver la paradoja, pero, haciendo uso de la fábula, la alegoría y la experiencia vital y literaria, la dibuja con una fuerza y un ritmo constantes, permeados por la sensualidad y, no pocas veces, por una suerte de escepticismo que, en todo caso, no le impide contemplar la belleza de la realidad circundante, ni olvidar la memoria colectiva, ni renunciar al placer de nombrar (esencia misma de la creación). El resultado revela una voz singular en la poesía colombiana....