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Recreación libre sobre el Concurso de Cante Jondo organizado en Granada en 1922 por Manuel de Falla, Miguel Cerón y Federico García Lorca.

Catullus is a companion of lovers and of those whom love has disappointed. He is also a satirical and epigrammatic writer who savagely consoles with laughter. Carmina captures in English both the mordant, scathing wit and also the concise tenderness, the famous love for reluctant Lesbia who is made present in these new versions. A range of English metres and rhymes evokes the many modes and moods of this most engaging, erotic and influential of Latin poets. Of Len Krisak's translations of Horace, Frederic Raphael writes, [He] enables us both to enjoy a fresh voice and to hear (and see), very...

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

La poesía de José Luis Parra (Madrid, 1944), escrita a lo largo de los últimos veinticinco años, se fija con recurrencia en la labor de zapa realizada por cada minuto, hora y día. Descarnada y lúcida, viene envuelta sin embargo en una dicción siempre elegante. El tono, nunca adusto, sabe ser grave sin solemnidad (no rechaza la ironía ni tampoco, en ocasiones, el humor) y propicia la mezcla de la precisión con la inquietud, su claridad reverberando hacia lo amargo, tiznada por el daño. Donde otros quizá recurrirían –porque la temática los admite– a registros más abruptos,...