ELEGÍAS

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence--published in a bilingual format--written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas. Thunderweavers is a story of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It deals with the...

Excerpt from Melancolias La naturaleza que le impresiono cuando nino, en esta su nativa tierra, la siente con muy vivas seducciones. Le canta al Grijalva. 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 missing...

Una de las colecciones capitales del padre del modernismo en español «Y parece que el hondo mirar cosas dijera, especiosas y ungidas de miel y de veneno.» Para muchos, Rubén Darío es el padre del modernismo. Los poetas parnasianos y simbolistas franceses ejercieron una gran influencia en su obra, pero a partir de Prosas profanas (1896 y 1901) el estilo pionero de Azul (1888, revisado en 1890) se define para alcanzar nuevas alturas en Cantos de vida y esperanza (1905), considerado el mejor ejemplo de su poesía. Aquí el poeta vuelve a sus temas recurrentes para afirmar que el arte...

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...