Robador de versos

Muchas veces nos pasamos una vida entera buscando al amor de nuestras vidas, aquel que nos haga sentir libres y con el que tan solo mirarlo nos sintamos en casa. Al principio, todo parece maravilloso. Quizás podríamos decir que nos sentimos protagonistas de un cuento de hadas de esos que siempre hemos idealizado, pero no siempre toda historia tiene el mismo final. Con la pérdida de este amor nos sentimos vulnerables, débiles e incluso podemos llegar a sentir que nada tiene un sentido aparente, pero nos olvidamos de lo esencial: nuestra historia está escrita por nosotros mismos, y somos...

In 1912, from Ronda, Spain, the great Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote about the lasting impact Toledo, Spain, had made on him the previous month. He was fascinated by the city and the work of El Greco. This book presents Rilke's lyrical impressions alongside fantastic illustrations by Eva Vásquez, who spent a year in the streets and squares of Toledo shaping her vision of the city into images. Two different, complementary perspectives of Toledo come together to encourage the discovery—or rediscovery—of the wonderful “Imperial City.”

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...

Desde época helenística y durante toda la Antigüedad, el epigrama fue muy cultivado como género poético refinado y erudito. Pronto se hicieron antologías y recopilaciones de los poetas que lo utilizaron. Dos de las más importantes, la Guirnalda de Me