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“juan velarde”

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  • Song of the Heart

    Selected Poems by Ramón López Velarde

    by Ramón López Velarde ...
    Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ...
    Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921) was one of the most Mexican of Mexican poets, whose sense of history found expression in many poems, including his best-known "La suave Patria" ("Sweet Land"). This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to his poetry. Often called a "poet of the provinces," López ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Selected Works

    by Juana Inés de la Cruz ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Latin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature.Sor Juana (1651–1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Only the Road / Solo el Camino

    Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry

    Edited by Margaret Randall ...
    Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries, lesser-known voices, and several Afro ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Cymbals of Tree Rings

    by Audrey Atherley ...
    On an island in the Caribbean Sea, a breathtaking backdrop provides inspiration. In her collection of fresh, engaging verse, poet Audrey Atherley shares imagery that provides a unique perspective into the landscape of Barbados as well as what it is like to live as a West Indian in New York.Atherley paints a colourful picture of Barbados life the shouts of the market vendor, the songs of birds, the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • In the Open Wind

    by Aristides de Almeida Filho ...
    What do we know? Read at will. Out of many winds, each poem has some clues and hints to a story. And if your questions narrow down to one: from where does In The Open Wind come? I tell you it is unlikely that this question will ever be fully resolved. What do we know? Robert Graves once pointed out “the paradox of poetrys obstinate continuance” in our times and offered an explanation: perhaps it ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out

    Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán

    by Ana Enriqueta Terán ...
    Translated by Marcel Smith ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    Ana Enriqueta Terán is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been translated into English, giving at best a diluted impression of a uniquely intense imagination.This bilingual edition reveals the power and beauty of this poet's Spanish poems through English versions of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena

    by Reina María Rodríguez ...
    Translated by Kristin Dykstra ...
    A parallel translation of a mixed-genre work by acclaimed Cuban writer Reina María Rodríguez in which poetry merges into creative nonfiction, culminating in a series of essays.Published in Spanish as Otras cartas a Milena, Other Letters to Milena shows Rodríguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty-first century. These involve a new post-Soviet world and the realities of diasporic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Birds In Words - Poems

    by Nick Flittner ...
    The 27 poems on these pages are an attempt to capture something of the character and nature of Australia's birdlife. Australia has such a wealth of wildlife, and none so much as the birds. Australia is awash with birds. You can't escape their colour or their sound or their physical presence. They are everywhere.Birds include the Rainbow Lorikeet, Pelican, Dotterels, the elusive Australian Bustard, ... Read more

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  • This Strange Land

    by Shara McCallum ...
    These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out notions of history, language, motherhood, rupture, memory, and identity. She weaves new cloth of oral tradition, struggling to arrange a comfort zone within the foreign manufactures of suburbia. Hers is the skilled ... Read more

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  • Nature Through my Window

    by Ronny A. Vargas ...
    This my view of what would happen if we lose our most precious treasure: Nature. ... Read more

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  • To the King Mundano.

    by Ronny A. Vargas ...
    The war was declared to the King Mundano: The greedy king of planet Sullet. ... Read more

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  • Blood of the Sun

    Poems

    by Salgado Maranhão ...
    Translated by Alexis Levitin ...
    "A perfect English rendering of Salgado Maranhão's deft expression of the tonality of this people and land." —Gregory Rabassa, acclaimed American translatorIn poems brilliantly textured and layered, Salgado Maranhão integrates socio-political thought with subjects abstractly metaphysical. Concrete collides with conceptual—butcher shops, sex, and machine guns in conversation with language, absence, ... Read more

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