El libro de los indolentes

Lo siento, no tengo información suficiente sobre Javier Sánchez Menéndez para desarrollar una biografía detallada.

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...

Contra toda convención de aquello que solemos llamar comunicabilidad, la obra de Bernstein destaca por realzar su contracara, utilizando aquello que se filtra por las vías de escape: pone en jaque ese cliché de que un poema necesariamente debe decirnos algo (como si pudiéramos ponerlo en la bolsa de valores o cuantificarlo). Para Bernstein, lo que queda fuera y lo que queda dentro del texto vale por igual. Para él, se debe mostrar el material con que se trabaja, poner el ojo en qué y el cómo se hace todo un arsenal lingüístico (eso que llamamos poema). Son textos que no pretenden...

Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and reasearch. In the second book of Dante’s epic poem...

All the poems in this work are those that the author has published between 1995 and 2001. Some poems that were later made into songs appear in both versions. As in the previous Inventario books, this one starts with the most recent poems and concludes with the oldest, perhaps with the hopes that the reader, by having access to this work through the newest and nearest door, will soon be tempted to open other doors, as if doing an inventory.