In The Twins, The Dream/Las Gemelas, El Sueno, two distinguished literary voices of the Americas offer a heartfelt meditation on language, love, personal identity, and the transforming power of friend
From the IntroductionOne summery day in Puerto Rican East Harlem, I leaned on the sidewalk fence in front of the headquarters of the Association of Puerto Rican Postal Employees. The three story brick
"English-only edition of poems written from exile, prison, and on the run by the Salvadoran revolutionary whose life and word urged love as well as change. Selected from 10 of his collections includin
Latin Americans have written some of the world's finest poetry in the twentieth century, as the Nobel Prizes awarded to Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz attest. Yet this rich literary
A collection of ballads represents the author's best-known works and conveys the richness of his native Andalusia and Spain's gypsy heartland, in a treasury that also celebrates the human senses. Repr
An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers.Born in Mexico City in 1951, Alberto Blanco is a dynamic and influential voice in the new p
San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profo
An anthology, originally published in 1858, of writings by Cuban poets exiled in New York due to their opposition to Spanish rule in Cuba offers works by Jose Maria Heredia, Miguel Teurbe Tolon, and o
The poems in Montejo's SCULPTED STONES give lyric expression to the feelings of exile and to the (sometimes comic) difficulties of living in a foreign culture. Throughout this book, Montejo extols the
"The first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. Debicki, more importantly, is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of Eur
"... very well translated... Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America." —Booklist"Combining hsi
First published in Spain in the summer of 1929, Concerning the Angels (Sobre los angeles) is the great Spanish poet Rafael Alberti’s masterpiece, on a par with T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Pablo Nerud
A bilingual collection of 25 newly translated odes by the century's greatest Spanish-language poet, each accompanied by a pair of exquisite pencil drawings. From bread and soap to a bed and a box of
Twentieth-century poetry engages in a highly self-conscious meditation on the nature of poetic language. Spanish poetry, however, has sometimes been considered an exception to this tendency. This book
A bilingual (Spanish/English) collection of personal poems on love and mortality by the eminent Latina poet. Published by Curbstone Press, 321 Jackson St., Willimantic, CT 06226. Annotation copyright
"Chilean Pablo Neruda is Latin America's greatest poet and one of the finest ever to have written in the Spanish language. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo, part Indian and born in a mining villa
