Irremediablemente... la soledad

Robert Gurney, Luton, Inglaterra, 1939. Estudió en las universidades de St Andrews, Salamanca, Makerere, Córdoba (RA) y Londres. Doctorado en Birkbeck College, Universidad de Londres. Profesor de poesía francesa moderna, literatura española y latinomericana. Profesor de español de la Universidad de Middlesex 1968-2001. Honorary lecturer, Universidad de Swansea, 2002-2010. Entrevistó a Salvador Dalí, Juan Larrea y Gerardo Diego. Él, su esposa Paddy, sus hijos y nietos viven en St Albans. Ha publicado el ensayo, La poesía de Juan Larrea, Universidad del País Vasco, 1985. En poesía...

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...

Buscando f-rmulas de libertad para la poes'a y para sus formatos de expresi-n en formas y palabras. Puedo haber cometido errores, pero no en la sensibilidad.

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 ...