Del calor al hielo por amor al cielo

Paul Muldoon's collection Hay refines, and re-defines, a lyrical strain in which an ostensible lightness of touch still has the strength to bear the weightiest subject matter. At once conventional and cutting edge, beautiful and bleak, Hay is a book that demonstrates fully the range of Muldoon's poetic intelligence and imagination.

Poesía —sobre las tormentas y tormentos de la existencia— que navega entre el realismo y el surrealismo, la ironía, la paradoja y lo tragicómico.

A la manera de un lienzo del barroco neerlandés Pieter Claesz, la colección de poemas que integra Naturaleza muerta reúne una serie de retratos simbólicos sencillos y oscuramente deslumbrantes. Animales, insectos y plantas; esculturas de dioses griegos o héroes de la antigüedad clásica, objetos tales como un maniquí o el mapa de una ciudad, conforman un breve poemario que brilla por la sencillez y la destreza de su ejecución, armado a la manera de los nocturnos bodegones de los siglos XVI y XVII y lleno de erudición clásica pero accesible a todo público, profano y exigente.

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...