El séptimo gesto

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada, featuring an essay by Kristin Dykstra. "Omar Perez Lopez (1964-) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba. A former journalist, Perez has explored a wide array of literary genres, particularly poetry, translation, and the essay...At the center of SOMETHING OF THE SACRED is the exploration of displacement. Perez sees poetic metaphor as 'the subtle displacement of something objective'...His apparent strangeness, particularly in his varied uses of Zen traditions, ...

Introduces the latest collection of a noted Argentine-born poet who has lived the life of the grand artistic expatriate in Paris since 1961, yet retains the admiration and respect of literary critics in his native country to the point that Revista Debaste compared his creative talent and genius to that of Plato's demiurge.

DESAGRAVIO DE LA CIGARRA Cántame hoy, cigarra, y olvídate del tiempo. Toda la vida cabe en un solo verano.

La obra poética de Garcilaso de la Vega, compuesta por cuarenta sonetos, cinco canciones, una oda en liras, dos elegías, una epístola, tres églogas y siete coplas castellanas y tres odas latinas, se publicó por primera vez en 1543, a modo de apéndice de las Obras de Juan Boscán. La producción lírica de Garcilaso de la Vega, máxima expresión del Renacimiento castellano, se convirtió, desde muy pronto, en una referencia inexcusable para los poetas españoles, que desde entonces no pudieron ignorar la revolución métrica y estética operada por él en la lírica española al...