La mujer pájaro

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

A todo lo no amado es un canto al verso desnudo, a la poesía rigurosa, directa y honesta. Premio de Poesía Ciudad de Torrevieja 2010. Lo no amado fue y de ello nacieron ramas unas deformes todas inocentes en la complejidad de un tiempo recorrido en el universo.

La poesía de Christian Peña se ha consolidado a golpe de versos en la lírica mexicana. Desde su primer libro, ha logrado crearse un estilo y una manera de hallazgo poético que ya reconocen sus lectores. Ya sea que escriba sobre el mito, la enfermedad o el arte, la producción poética de Peña, cimentada en la experimentación formal y las reinvenciones textuales, es siempre biográfica y no obstante literaria, es personal y es extranjera. Por eso sus personajes siempre nos resultan próximos, humanos, traspasados por la equivocación o el miedo. Expediente X.V. puede leerse como un libro ...

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...