Mentiras Asesinas

El poeta, en la templanza de su poesía, nos dice y nos manifiesta en sus poemas el comienzo de la vida que nace con ella, su devenir en la intemperancia de la misma y el amor que se sustenta con los sueños y la magia de unos pensamientos que envuelven y las fantasías y las elucubraciones.

Nací en una región montañosa en la que se secaban hasta las lágrimas más amargas. Conforme uno va haciéndose viejo, se da cuenta de la importancia de conservar en la memoria la silueta, impecable o deformada, de su tierra natal. Esos dorados paisajes que me vieron crecer, con sus hierbajos, sus manjares y sus insectos, son los que me inspiraron los poemas que conforman Rimas sobre barro seco.

In 1903, Machado published his first book of poems, entitled Soledades. And like his socially conscious Generation of 1898, he emerged from his solitude to view Spain's social and historical roots through his poetic work. In Otros poemas, published in 1907, his voice becomes his own and influences 20th Century poets.

Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words is Lucha CorpiÍs pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in Spanish and expertly translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, the poems fairly bloom off the page in a display of lyric virtuosity. Corpi is the first of the Mexican American poets to explore through deeply personal and intimate feelings potentially explosive political topics, transculturation, the role of women, her commitment to social change, and the grand themes of love and death. Highly sophisticated, enchanting, and well...