Pensamientos Pequeños

Algún día llegaremos a la luna obtuvo el Premio de la Academia Castellano Leonesa de la Poesía destinado a Jóvenes Creadores 2007. El jurado destacó que se trataba de una obra “muy particular” por el uso que hace de la metáfora, la palabra y las expresiones, por su frescura y porque “encaja perfectamente con la seriedad poética y con la ironía que debe subyacer en toda poesía”.

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 ...

A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden's new translation does full justice to Vallejo's complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of more than...

El presente volumen constituye una muestra de los más connotados poemas de "La Peregrina", como se autonombraba Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Recoge poesía de amor, de preocupaciones existenciales y fantasías poéticas. Entre los poemas que contienen están, "El árbol de Guernica", "La pesca en el mar", "Voz de Cuba" y "Al partir". Este último, considerado por estudiosos como iniciador de su periodo romántico, es una composición antológica "marcada por el desgarramiento existencial", al decir de Roberto Méndez, prologuista del libro. El lector podrá vislumbrar en estas páginas un ...