Diuturnos

Natalia Toledo'sThe Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems of love and loss the world's population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma.The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico's highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004. FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!

La publicación de este poemario inédito de Jacinta Gil supone todo un acontecimiento literario y la reivindicación de una creadora fundamental. Su poesía desvela una mirada crítica hacia la idiosincrasia actual, responde a un peculiar temperamento fraguado con los años de denuncia a través de su obra plástica y que se realza, a su vez, con su atrevida ironía.

Translated by MARIO LICON CABRERA. Introduction by GUSTAVO OSORIO In this anthology we encounter a very unique trIo of voices, as diverse in their tones as in their themes. This book includes a selection of powerful poems from the collections COUNTERSUMMER by MIJAIL LAMAS, TO SPEAK SHADOWS, BY MARIO BOJORQUEZ, and THE CORRESPONDENCES, by ALI CALDERON. This is an excellent introduction to Mexican poetry written in the XXI CENTURY, Mexican poetry after OCTAVIO PAZ. "The poems from Countersummer seem to be built around one scene: the poet, far away from his native city, writes about his links...

La obra completa de Mart dedicada a los ni os de Am rica en edici n cr tica y con estudio por Eduardo Lolo