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“Milagros de Nuestra Señora” es la obra más destacada del clérigo medieval Gonzalo de Berceo. Escrito hacia el 1260, se trata de una compilación de exempla, o cuentos morales y didácticos en verso, que relatan veinticinco milagros de la Virgen María. Los “Milagros de Nuestra Señora” son una obra indispensable de la literatura medieval en lengua castellana.

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

Pedro Vergés reunió los poemas sueltos publicados en revistas en La escasa merienda de los tigres y otros poemas (1975). Miguel Labordeta, que parte de la difícil vanguardia de posguerra, emprende una aventura poética muy personal que lo confirma como una de las voces más intensas, originales e interesantes de nuestra poesía contemporánea, una de las que han conseguido resistir la marea de las modas y cambios de gusto.

The poems in this collection mix English and Spanish while tracing the ?kool logic? of culture in transit. Scuttling from free verse and limericks to d?cimas and terza rima, the poet is our guide on a transcultural tour through downtowns, suburbs, stockyards, shantytowns, power lunches, HMOs, open mics, and open sores. Fusing pop riffs, Beat whimsy, Nuyorican punch lines, and modernist deadpan, the poet in these pages is also the comedian, the visionary, the j?baro, the agitator, the theorist, the lounge singer, the slacker ? Puerto Rican poet and performer Urayo?n Noel has coined a new sort...