El sexo de las estrellas

Excerpt from Romancero de Pedro de Padilla De tu esfuerzo y tu fé sencilla y pura, Que aunque la vida en condicion pusieras, A valer á estas tristes acudieras. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or...

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

Winner of a 2002 American Book Award Winner of the 2002 Colorado Book Award in Poetry "The natural voice at work in the poetry sings of one human life as if it were our own. I loved listening." —Rita Kiefer, author of Nesting Doll "This just may be one of the best books of poetry I have ever read. . . . This is the kind of writing that give poetry a good name." —Mike Nobles, Tulsa World "Abeyta's poetry amazingly captures this struggle with poems that are simultaneously tortured and thankful, celebratory and melancholy, earthly and ethereal. . . . Poet Abeyta beautifully captures the...

A mediados de marzo del año 2020, la pandemia surgió sin previo aviso esgrimiendo la sombra de muerte colectiva y el miedo ancestral a la extinción. El encierro y aquietamiento de la vida exterior tienen su correspondencia en el mundo interno de las personas. Y así fue como estos textos abrieron las puertas de mi corazón a esos espacios donde los senderos transitados se vuelven único camino. Los poemas que componen este libro palpitan entre la visión interior y metafísica, la reminiscencia de experiencias personales, la belleza de los Jardines Floridos, el amor como energía surgente...