Entresijo

A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the middle of one’s life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of The Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of ...

Lêdo Ivo (Alagoas, Brasil, 1924), poeta, narrador, cronista y ensayista, es uno de los máximos exponentes de la llamada Generación del 45, movimiento que, sin ser programático, revisó la poesía de vanguardia y el modernismo brasileño. Desde su primer libro, Las imaginaciones (1944), su poesía supuso una rotunda y proteica singularidad en el panorama de las letras brasileñas. Sus más de veinte volúmenes de poemas —entre los que cabe destacar Ode e elegia (1945), Estaçao central (1964), Finisterra (1972), Curral de Peixe (1995) o su último libro editado, Requiem (2008)— han...

Robert Gurney, Luton, Inglaterra, 1939. Estudió en la Universidad de St Andrews. Doctorado en Birkbeck College, Universidad de Londres. Preparó su tesis doctoral sobre Juan Larrea, The Poetry of Juan Larrea, 1975, publicado por la Universidad del País Vasco (La poesía de Juan Larrea, 1985). Estuvo con Larrea en Argentina en 1972. Profesor de poesía francesa moderna, literatura española y latinomericana. Traducción: Andrés Bohoslavsky, The River and Other Poems (2004). Ha publicado los libros de poesía Luton Poems (2005), El cuarto oscuro (2008), Poemas a la Patagonia (2004 y 2009)....

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...