El año que viene estamos en Cuba

Gustavo Perez examines relationships, sex, and Cuban American life in this collection of accessible poems. He handles both Spanish and English with seamless assurance. Gustavo Perez Firmat was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Floria.

In Almas en pena, chapolas negras, Fernando Vallejo recounts the life of Colombian poet Jose Asuncion Silva. This unusual biography is a phantasmagoric trip through Bogota at the end of the 19th century. After committing suicide in 1896, Asuncion Silva left Colombia ten of the most beautiful poems of the Spanish language, and to his creditors a sum of $210.000 in debt. A century after his death, Vallejo initiates a search through notaries' archives and libraries, and relying upon an abundance of documents and old newspapers, he begins to solve the mystery of the poet's suicide and his...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

Biografía de María Josefa Morales de los Ríos, mujer de vida novelesca que tuvo un rol notable en las luchas por la Independencia,sistemáticamente ignorada por la historiografía, tal vez por su estrecha relación con José de San Martín, de quien fue amiga íntima. Reconstrucción de Rodolfo Terragno a partir de documentos inéditos.

Junto con la ferviente devoción a la persona de san Josemaría Escrivá, sigue creciendo en los cinco continentes, el vivo deseo de conocer más a fondo su vida: paso a paso, punto por punto. Desde su muerte, han visto la luz muchos libros y ensayos sobre su vida y su doctrina, pero se esperaba una biografía completa que considere el punto de vista del biografiado, al hilo de sus propios documentos. Ésa es la razón de ser de esta obra. El biógrafo ha trabajado el libro con afán, lo ha construido escrupulosamente sobre "Apuntes íntimos", documentos, testimonios, cartas y notas de...