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Juana Borrero (1877 - 1896) - Modernist poet, born in Puentes Grandes, Havana, Cuba. She also excelled in painting. As a poet, she was considered a precocious girl. Her father, Esteban Borrero, was a short stories writer of and a poet; and her sister, Dulce Maria Borrero, excelled at poetry and prose. Therefore, Juana grew up in an artistic and literary atmosphere, amid literary circles and gatherings attended by other writers like Carlos Pio and Federico Uhrbach, as well as Julian del Casal. While still very young, Juana took painting classes, first with Dolores Desvernine, and later on, in...

Harold Bloom realiza un acercamiento literario, crítico y ante todo humanista a los personajes que considera más relevantes de Shakespeare. El primero: Falstaff. Harold Bloom declaró sentirse especialmente identificado con Falstaff ("cuando era joven y estaba menos cansado, yo fantaseaba con ser Falstaff") y con su forma de amar la vida. No es de extrañar que dedicara, por tanto, el primer libro de esta colección a uno de los personajes tragicómicos más complejos y eternos de Shakespeare.

Versos con faldas. Poetas españolas para la infancia y la juventud (2000-2015) propone una perspectiva panorámica de la lírica femenina contemporánea para edades tempranas en la España de los últimos tres lustros. Un paisaje que recoge las huellas de las antecesoras para explorar una creación plural, vibrante y, en ocasiones, poco conocida; donde cabe la tradición y la investigación formal, el haiku y la fábula, la poesía visual y el limerick; donde el niño es alocutario y protagonista de los poemas; donde son posibles el humor, la parodia, el desgarro con toda la profundidad...