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Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...

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....

"Claroscura" es una radiografía del alma de la autora que exorciza a través de su poesía sus demonios, y plasma en sentir de su corazón por medio de sus ilustraciones inéditas, un diario personal y sentido de una mujer que ama, odia, sufre, goza y vive con intensidad su vida.

El romanticismo inglés llega a «Poesía Portátil» con Un sueño selló mi espíritu, una antología que reúne los versos más representativos de Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley y Keats. El romanticismo inglés revolucionó la forma de escribir poesía y dio luz a algunos de los grandes autores de todos los tiempos. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley y Keats son estandartes de un periodo que abrió un mundo nuevo. Con traducción de Gonzalo Torné, esta antología acerca al lector a sus sensuales meditaciones sobre el paso del tiempo, sus cantos a la juventud y sus odas a la...