No creo poder tocar el cielo con las manos (Flash Poesía)

The poems are the new sacred texts of the present, even those who claim to be profane. Sacred Texts New Collection, directed by Antoni Mari, celebrates its twenty years just when Tusquets Editores celebrates their Forty's. An anthology chosen from a pool of extraordinarily and distinguished and extensive texts in the present and past of Hispanic history.

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...

Poesía mágica para caminar sin miedos. Aquí dentro, el agua de lluvia reparte bondad, hay un cuaderno en blanco bajo el sol de otoño, aquí dentro está tu historia de estrella con una vida de seda. Súbete a este pino para practicar voto de silencio porque, muchas veces, es mejor escribir que hablar.

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