Sonrisas bajo la tormenta

Un lugar: Marfa, en el estado de Texas, y una mirada forastera que lo recorre apacible, deteniéndose sólo el tiempo necesario; como si quisiera, rozándolos apenas, nombrar los seres y las cosas que lo habitan.Una contemplación en mudanza y asombro permanentes, por instantes idéntica a la vida que ahí, en ese espacio, alienta.En este nuevo libro, Coral Bracho se interna por esa “tierra de larguísimas sombras” llevando la luz indispensable, la claridad de su palabra. La poesía es entonces un ímpetu sosegado, una vibración, un estado del alma, y traza espléndidas minucias que se...

"This book examines the work of Guillermo Carnero, one of Spain's most important contemporary poets, in the context of the critical theories developed in the West after World War II that inform all of Carnero's writing." "Previous critical studies have tried to link Carnero's poetry to that of other novisimo poets within the narrow confines of Spanish poetics and literary history. This study seeks to move beyond the limiting perspective of the Spanish generational paradigm."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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...

The linguistic spectrum of Andrea Zanzotto's poetry spans from his native language, Venitian, to terms drawn from countless languages, both living and dead. His poetry also explores diverse forms of meaning, whether gibberish, children's songs, onomatopoeia, or silence--the expression of his singular uncertainty amid a world of agitation and forgetting that seems to inflict its injuries on its own landscape.