Canto Ciego

La poesía de Nëstor Mazza es ahondada en "Nubes amatistas" con sus temas de siempre: la identidad, el devenir, el amor, el paso del tiempo.

Presents thirty-six of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet's best verses from throughout his career, including "Alturas de Macchu Picchu" and odes to the onion, socks, and the birth of a deer.

Petalos de Oro Dime señor? como es posible encontrar en el lodo una yerbita con petalos de oro. La veo brillar a través de mi llánto y se que ella ha sido pisoteada por todos Cómo es posible? Si la brisa suave debiera de darnos delicias a todos Si el resplandiciente sol nos da su luz y su calor

Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico—few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes major international writers like Alberto ...