Imaginar Comala

Poetry in English and Spanish, openly political, blatantly blunt, and religiously irreverent, reaches from the innermost corners of the soul to the streets of New York, to the battlegrounds of Central America, and finally to union with the godhead

RESUMEN: Una comparación entre el poema «Nu» de Manuel Bandeira y «Amores 1.5» de Ovidio muestra semejanzas asombrosas que quedan confi madas en la lectura detallada de ambos y el comentario paralelo. El poema de Ovidio contiene la más hermosa descripción de un desnudo femenino de la literatura latina. Es por eso un texto que representa lo mejor de la Antigüedad. El de Bandeira, tan similar, es un muy bello texto de la literatura brasileña querepresenta lo mejor de la Modernidad. Se confirman la modernidad de Ovidio y la condición de clásico de Bandeira, equiparable a los grandes...

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

Laura asks her father whether or not various animals fart like people do and he tries to imagine if the animals do or not.