En calidad de desconocido

El amor por el mar emana del viento y de sus fuertes corrientes y, la busqueda continua de la ola perfecta, me han llevado a admirar a este hombre que en su pureza ha sabido hacerme participe, aunque por poco tiempo, de su mundo, transmitiendome este amor que en su simplicidad me ha embrujado el corazon y ha inspirado algunas de las mas hermosas poesias que haya escrito jamas.

Mexican poetry has never shied away from satire, brazen humor, and even the risqué, a tradition not borrowed but rather inherited--Spanish poetry and novels have included references to sex and the scatological for centuries. In Mexico, the genre has also been used to voice biting social critiques. In this pocket anthology, Juan Domingo Argüelles delves deep into Mexico's rudest, sharpest, and rebellious verses.

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 ...

Fernando Pessoa (Lisboa, 1888-1935) es posiblemente el poeta europeo más leído y reseñado del siglo XX. Su personalidad poliédrica, a más de ocho décadas de su muerte, sigue imantando la atención de lectores de todos los continentes. Pero no es la integridad de su universo subjetivo lo que causa tal fascinación, sino todo lo contrario: el distanciamiento del Ser frente a sí mismo, la fragmentación de identidades y una crítica de la vida cotidiana que asume lo absurdo como omnipresente, son algunos de los atributos más notorios de su poesía. El lector, mediante la exploración de...