De Tus Sentimientos a Mis Pensamientos

La poesía de Darío Jaramillo Agudelo se ofrece como una invitación para transitar con ella por los comunes rumbos de la experiencia humana: la anhelante espera del ser amado –la celebración de esa plenitud y la constatación de su pérdida–, el azoro ante la más poderosa existencia de los gatos, las piedras y los árboles, la nitidez con que esto que llamamos la vida se presenta de pronto, por las noches, cuando las aguas del sueño nos transportan hacia esa otra orilla donde es posible ser todos y ninguno. Nostalgia incesante y memoria recobrada; dolor y gozo de saberse mortal y...

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Vicente Haya, el mayor experto en haikus de lengua castellana, con 17 libros publicados en nuestro país, acomete (desde su celda del Templo Kôfukuji en Nagasaki) la tarea de explicar en un solo libro todo lo que hay que saber sobre haiku. Establece 88 puntos fundamentales para entender el haiku, y para ilustrarlos traduce 262 haikus directamente del japonés. El libro se titula Aware porque este término resume la noción de emoción estético-religiosa que en el japonés despierta la naturaleza. El autor parte de la premisa de que para entender qué es un buen haiku hay que conocer los...

I am delighted to see this second book in the Bridges Series come to print. I originally conceived of this series of books to be a bridge between two cultures, a bridge between colleagues, friends and fellow writers - two Cubans and two Canadians in each book. Ever since the inception of the CCLA in 2004 we have tried to live up to our mandate: The mandate of the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance is to advance cultural solidarity between Canada and Cuba through the creative expression of poetry, prose, art and photography. This book will evidence our ongoing success. For me personally this book...