A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt" describes not only Central America in the 1980s but—in the conception of its editors—this anthology of contraband poetry. The poems themse
In the over one hundred poems contained in Isla Negra, Pablo Neruda fashioned a kind of poetic autobiography in which he set out to explore and gather the various "lives" or "selves" he had left behi
This book is the only major collection of the great Chilean writer Vicente Huidobro's poetry to appear in English. Drawn from his works published from 1917 to 1948 and presented bilingually, the tran
With literature, music constituted the most important activity of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's life. The two arts were closely related to each other throughout his career. As a child, L
An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems."The Sea"A single entity, but no blood.A single caress, death or a rose.The sea comes in and puts our lives to
This bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems
Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Span
