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Los múltiples objetos preciosos que la poetisa ha ido coleccionando con generosa avaricia a lo largo de los años (...) nos serán ofrecidos en unos versos que tienen la tersura y la serenidad de los clásicos junto a la trémula emoción de la modernidad.

Desde lo más profundo del corazón, donde se guardaron sentimientos y emociones diversas a través del tiempo transcurrido en este plano. Recuerdos y vivencias de la adolescencia, la juventud y adultez, narrados en poemas que brotan desde las profundidades del alma y surgen a la expresión escrita siempre con esperanza, fe y reflexiones en tiempo de pandemia que azota con el Covid-19. Cada poema guarda la necesidad del abrazo, del beso, del encuentro en libertad. Basado y pensado desde el amor incondicional. Narda Ludueña (Simran)

Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of...

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 ...