Oficio de vivir

Francisco Bustos eloquently writes of Colonia Ruiz Cortinez and Barrio San Ysidro, waiting in la linea to be scrutinized by U.S. Customs officials, and of the bi-national journey of living both in the United States and Mxico. His melodic tone defies the fast-paced world of schedules, while being actively engaged in the moment, and then fleeting down another street to encounter another tale. As es la vida qu no?, Bustos says, As es. Michael Cheno Wickert focuses mainly on living in the barrios of Southeast San Diego where life often turns toward violence and suspicion is commonplace. It is a...

Se trata de un libro de poemas de Leopoldo Lugones publicado por primera vez en 1912 y dedicado a su esposa. El poeta se inspira en los paisajes europeos, en París y la naturaleza para construir poemas que exaltan el amor conyugal y la intimidad hogareña. Leopoldo Lugones (1874-1938) fue un intelectual argentino que se distinguió en numerosos ámbitos, como el de la escritura, el periodismo, la historia o la política. Fue uno de los máximos exponentes del modernismo hispanoamericano y el Día del Escritor en Argentina homenajea su nacimiento.

Loving poetry is a symbol of indolence, a challenge that requires solitude and silence, sacrifice and permanent devotion. All that a human being needs to live can be found in poetry, the artistic genre par excellence. El libro de los indolentes is a journey towards an unknown place where we inhabit, each day, a fortified but unwalled space, a river that gushes truth.

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...