The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imag
For the first time in a quarter century, a major new volume of translations of the beloved poetry of Federico García Lorca, presented in a beautiful bilingual editionThe fluid and mesmeric line
In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patriarchal society. Magda Portal, a poet and journalist,
"The greatest poet of the 20th century in any language."—Gabriel Garcia Marquez"His enormous scope was due to the fact that he dared take on the risks of impurity, imperfection, and, yes, banality. He
In Secrets of Pinar’s Game, Roger Boase deciphers a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel, Prince Juan, her daughters and her 40 court ladies. This book reveals information about the court cult
Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers, known for his mastery of the Catalan language. In Love Is a Place, a translation of his three most recent collections, he finds himself face to fa
The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wif
Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Guillermo Parra. This is a second, expanded edition of the English translation of poems by José Antonio Ramos Sucre (Venezuela, 1890-1930), which was originally
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser showcases, for the first time in English, a challenging, bold, and vivid new voice in Cuban literature. Marcelo Morales was born in Cuba in
Winner of the 2016 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation"In Returnings, we are treated to an essay on the imaginative possibilities of a great poet, long exiled from his native land, turning mem
Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition.
America invertida introduces twenty-two Uruguayan poets under the age of forty to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Kercheval paired poets and translators to produce a rich volume based o
Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Arturo Mantecon. This is the first Spanish/English edition of the poetry of Francisco Ferrer Lerin. This Anglophone introduction to the world famous poet will pr
World renowned as one of the masters of modern fiction, Julio Cortázar was also a prolific poet who, in his final months in Paris, assembled his life's work in verse. This new, expanded edition ofSave
Luis Cernuda (1902 -1963), was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK. This became the start of an exile that lasted till his
"The most important poet of the twentieth century?in any language."?Gabriel Garcia Marquez"'The Heights of Macchu Picchu' is a poem of ascension. . . . In its final passages, Neruda's poetry jumps fro