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Couplets on the death of his father is the masterpiece of Jorge Manrique and has made him one of the essential authors of Spanish poetry. Conceived as an elegy, medieval elements are combined with others that announce the emerging Renaissance. And, what is most significant, they are a celebration of life amidst the Quattrocento tradition of death.

Roberto Bolaño’s own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. ‘Prose from Autumn in Gerona’, a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, ‘The Neochileans’, is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour traveling north from Chile to Peru and Ecuador....

La autora analiza los sonetos más íntimos de Griselda, dónde recrea su pasión por el cuerpo del ser amado; la relación entre Eros y Tánatos, en la que el deseo es una lucha por la vida; donde la poeta enlaza el amor a la vida sexual. La obra de Beatriz Saavedra sobre la poética de Griselda Álvarez que presentamos al público lector, es la interpretación femenina del mundo, desde la estética de la poesía.

“En Mónica Gontovnik hay una confrontación entre quietud y avidez, entre contemplación y vacío. Caracol a la orilla del mar. Camaleón entre las venas, su cuerpo en un campo de tensiones, de conflictos ásperos y permanentes. No puede eludirse a si misma y el cerebro martilla incómodos pensamientos. Solo la fluidez de la escritura alivia, en algo, esos nudos". JUAN GUSTAVO COBO BORDA Bogotá, abril 2008