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2) Madwoman
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""These wonderful poems open a world of sensation and memory. But it is a world revealed by language, never just controlled. The voice that guides the action here is openhearted and open-minded-a lyric presence that never deserts the subject or the reader. Syntax, craft and cadence add to the gathering music from poem to poem with-to use a beautiful phrase from the book, 'each note tethering sound to meaning.'"-Eavan Boland Haunting, alarming, transformative,...
4) The raven
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The Raven Edgar Allan Poe - In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak despair of Poe's celebrated work, among the most popular American poems ever written.This volume reprints all 26 of Doré's detailed,...
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A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career-the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world-with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest...
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Storm runner volume 3
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"When a few Mexica gods try to put their Maya counterparts out of commission, it's up to Zane and some godborns-in-training to save the universe"--
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Havana without Makeup is the ultimate insider's view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex facets as seen by few. Its aim is to capture the soul of a city and a society that have evolved on their own terms at the moment before they face inevitable transformations. Opening on the eve of the announcement of reconciliation between the U.S. and Cuba, the book then looks back at the cultural, political, economic, and religious influences...
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David Rosenmann-Taub: poemas y comentarios rompe con los esquemas convencionales. Hasta ahora, salvo el poeta mismo, nadie ha emprendido una antologia comentada de los poemas de Rosenmann-Taub. Ademas, aunque el poeta chileno ha publicado por setenta anos, todavia falta un amplio entendimiento de sus preocupaciones tematicas. Al formular estrategias interpretativas para entender los poemas, Kenneth Gorfkle desarrollo su propio acercamiento a la expresion...
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David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries breaks with conventional norms. Until now, nobody has undertaken a commented anthology of the poems of Rosenmann-Taub except for the poet himself. In addition, although the Chilean poet has been publishing for seventy years, a broad understanding of his thematic preoccupations is still lacking. After formulating interpretative strategies to understand the poems, Kenneth Gorfkle developed his own approach...
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"This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and epigraph-length fragments with illustrations. A mix of old and new autobiographical material, Hunter of Stories includes Galeano's reflections on death, written during the very last months of his life"--
"Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries...
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On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself,...
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What happens when complementary colors such as magenta and green fall in love? How do potatoes do it in the dirt, and what do their neighbors think about it?
These and other riddles of love; the many kinds of love; the smell of lust; living, loving, dying, are put into words everyone can feel, in English and in Spanish. These are what happens when a poet is trained in engineering, an engineer looks at the world.
The author is a world traveler, speaking...
14) Selected poems
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Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his latest major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to...
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Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. The first five poets he treats are Latin American: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José...
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Obra imprescindible de la literatura hispanoamericana, presentada por Jorge Luis Borges, con estudio crítico, anotada, e ilustrada. Narra las aventuras de un gaucho trabajador, que viviendo en el campo es reclutado forzosamente dejando desamparada a su familia. Durante años sufre penurias e injusticias hasta que decide desertar y, al volver, su rancho se encuentra abandonado y sin rastro de su familia. Estas desgracias hacen que Martín Fierro se...
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"A nuanced and deeply-reported account of the collapse of Venezuela, and what it could mean for the rest of the world. Today, Venezuela is a country of perpetual crisis-a country of rolling blackouts, nearly worthless currency, uncertain supply of water and food, and extreme poverty. In the same land where oil-the largest reserve in the world-sits so close to the surface that it bubbles from the ground, where gold and other mineral resources are abundant,...
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2018.
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628 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history"--
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El amor, como nos diría Leon Bloyd acerca de la belleza, también es un monstruo. En este poemario, que es un poema-río, surca como obsesión "el monstruo del amor desgarrando el árbol de la vida", el drama del hombre que ya no puede mirar las manos de Dios. Si para Rubens, el color rojo intenso sobre fondo de blancos plomos fue el instrumento para mostrar toda la fuerza telúrica de la pasión entre Sansón y Dalila, para Julio Antonio Molinete...
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