Tríptico

This book, "De Mi Mente" (Spanish for from my mind), is a book of over 3,000 lyrics of which approximate 2,100 are written for a man to sing and the latter 900 are written for a woman to sing. All songs are interchangeable. Some of the songs are love songs but the lyrics are not written for political and religious reasons. The reader will have the option to arrange each song according to his or her taste of which each and every song can be arranged in a bolero, ranchera, cumbia; etc. The reader can choose at their choice of which song inspires them and in they are not obligated to make any...

“La obra del poeta cubano Roberto Friol se define entre dos maneras de asumir la Caída: por un lado, el explorar los límites de la condenación y, por el otro, la posibilidad de un renacer agraciado. Esta poética que encuentra su verdad en el dilema, desde la impersonalidad de la entrega cristiana, fluctuará pendularmente hacia la conciencia de que la exploración interior en busca del autoconocimiento de ninguna manera termina en el hallazgo de un yo esencial, sino en el difuso entrever de un centro que, con el mismo impulso con que alcanza a delinear sus contornos, se diluye. La...

Nuevamente Marysol Salval hace uso de las palabras, esta vez para escribir principalmente al amor. Su lírica contiene la esencia de la existencia. Sus poemas son reflejo de vivencias personajes, como la pérdida del padre, el amor de madre, amiga o amante. Deja lugar entonces a la angustia, nostalgia, el erotismo y a la musicalidad que se puede lograr a través del verso y las palabras que lo componen. «La palabra me mece como al trigo el viento y como fuera un milagro, eclosiona el poema en cuyo aroma felizmente me hundo».

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...