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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 ...

Frecuentemente son las palabras las que nos eligen a nosotros y dicen que todas las palabras están inventadas pero eso es mentira, cada día nacen nuevas para definir nuevos estados de ánimo. La vida es poesía como todo lo vivo.

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Arte y memoria del inocente (1988), Variaciones en blanco (1994), La Sed (1997), Lugar de la derrota (2003), Esto no es el silencio (2008), Limbo y otros poemas (2013), Diez mandamientos (2016); largo tiempo de vida y escritura el que traemos a esta Antología esencial, suficiente para que ahora, con la perspectiva que conceden los años y desde nuestra condición suyos, sea posible acercarnos de nuevo a la poesía de Ada Salas (Cáceres, 1965) con la intención de desandar caminos y seguir el rastro que han dejado estos libros, la presencia en ellos de una continua, obstinada voluntad de...