In Mesa de contentos, two languages that represent two different cultures, which in themselves emit two powerful vibrations, sitdown, dialogue, enrich and nourish each other. Spanish recovers what is most genuine from its oral tradition and English allowsitself to be encroached upon by the twists and turns of this primary language whose presence is...
In stockThe Wizard’s Manuscript opens, beguilingly, with anameless narrator spending the very last of his money onthe titular work. Hungry and hoping for spells to conjurebread, he finds himself instead enchanted by thefragmentary story. It is nourishing but in the manner ofscorpion-meat, armored and strange: obliquely, the storyteaches loving the prickly beauty...
In stockHistoria de un escenario is a journey through forty years of the life of a theatrical troupe in Spanish from the University of Virginia that has performed fifty-two works in different styles and from various sources. This book organizes in catalog form the casts and photographs of all the teatrical productions, in addition to incorporating critical and...
Stock availableThought-provoking, wry, intelligent, and moving, Exquisite Corpse explores urban life, academic arrogance, female sexuality, existential concepts of being, and always, the beauty and comfort of music, nature and poetry. Inspired by Dadaism’s love of the unpredictable, this book also challenges traditional notions of poetic form. It includes graphics,...
In StockAny situation can be seen from another perspective or angle that gives it new light. The generation that was born towards the end of the twentieth century moves between the memories of a century moved by war and the liberation of thought. Cruz discovers the other side of these memories whose side B keeps us listening. Author David CruzTranslation Natasha...
In stockMario Calderón’s poems are intensely original because they enhance their meaning by virtue of etymology, or the symbolic dimension of words. Beneath these poems lies a hypothesis about the structure of what we call “reality.” Calderón exposes the idea that, by way of the symbolic decipherment of any person’s surroundings, it is possible to know data about...
In stockBetween Fantasy and Tuscany is a story of discovery and growth based upon the true experience of a 39-year-old American woman, Susan, who buys and restores a farmhouse in Sarteano, a hill town in Tuscany, in the late 1980’s. At the same time Susan is renovating the house, she is reconstructing her life. Author Susan BraggiottiPages 226Format PaperbackISBN...
In stockWhen the dust clears in the fields of twentieth century Spanish poetry, three icons will remain in the consciousness of the English speaking world: Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda and José Hierro. Lorca and Neruda have already attained widespread acceptance through translation. José Hierro is just now being recognized for the visionary that he was....
Stock availableThe contemporary Colombian poets that we present in this anthology write originally and from a variety of perspectives about poetry itself. Some translate the reality of a country that is reaching the bicentennial of its independence without having defined the parable of loneliness that Gabriel García Márquez depicted in his Macondan universe. The present...
Stock availableWhispering Ashes is Isabel Gómez Sobrino’s first book of poems. This book embodies the memories and life experiences that the poetic voice uses to explain its relationship to the world. These poems undertake an exploration of the different dilemmas of death, life and displaced homecomings stitched together by time. There is an underlying struggle with...
In StockIn this anthology, Rosalía de Castro speaks to our lonelinesses, to our longing for connection in an increasingly disconnected world, to the solace found in rootedness, to the writing of our desires onto the natural world, to climate change. Though she is a nineteenth-century poet, from a little-known corner of the world, her words reverberate into the...
In stockThis is a collection of poetry that suggests that there is much to be gained by a reevaluation of the various codes that define and limit human existence in order to tap into a cosmic sense of belonging, albeit in a post-human age”. THEA PITMAN (University of Leeds) Author Luis Correa DíazTranslation Heather Cleary WolfgangPages 98Format PaperbackISBN...
In stockThe characters in these stories ask for help in many ways. They suffer from terminal illnesses or profound psychological trauma. Political, domestic violence pursues them. They yearn to escape to other worlds, to set out on a pilgrimage. To grow roots in new lands. To be reborn. Or to die without anyone knowing. Suffering is described from the perspective...
Stock availableWritten in the extraordinary circumstances of 2020, a year of rekoning, in Americana-lcd Luis Correa-Díaz casts an original and distinctly postmodern light on this country. A heady cocktail of poetry in Spanish contemplates America from the Founding Fathers to the recent presidential inauguration, evoking along the way Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, the...
In stockI have always loved fútbol. I have wept watching movies like the War of the Galaxies or Cinema Paradiso. I have sung songs by Calamaro, Jim Morrison or Lennon out of tune, and nevertheless I live in fear every day, and that’s why I sleep with the light on at night. Because of those insignificant details, those small matters that have always amazed me and...
En stockIn the words of writer Julia Otxoa, “From the luminous Arabic, Greek, and Mediterranean legacies, María Paz Moreno creates a new poetry in response to current times, builds new bridges that help us understand losses and treasures, establishing other trajectories to grow in both interrogation and hope.”Author María Paz MorenoTranslation Yunsuk ChaeISBN...
Stock availableManumission means freeing a slave, but in this work we have the consciousness that, in reality, we all continue to share the fate of freed slaves in the twenty-first century, dependent on superior forces that control us, dominate us and mark our paths. Remedios Sánchez...
Stock availableGabriel Chávez Casazola is one of the most suggestive and recognized poets in his country. Possessing a simple and deep language that transforms his poetic words into new words, his international impact extends to all Latin American countries, where his poetry has earned the unanimous admiration of critics. Persistence of Tattoos is a stunning book whose...
Stock availableWaldo Leyva was born in Remates de Ariosa, Villa Clara, Cuba, in 1943. He belongs to a generation of poets who have attempted to popularize poetry with a conversational tone and who have defended its inevitable connection to other artistic manifestations, especially music and painting. He is one of the most brilliant authors of the last three decades in...
Stock availableThe need to return poetry to the people has been addressed at different moments with very uneven success. Since the 1980’s the poetry of Luis García Montero has become the standard for an entire generation of Spanish language poets. García Montero is a poet with a following of readers, but in addition he is a poet who has never eschewed depth or...
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