Irremediablemente... la soledad

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 ...

Via Corporis de Pura López Colomé, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2007, explora los malestares del cuerpo y los sentidos ocultos del lenguaje. En diálogo constante con 34 óleos de Guillermo Arreola, recreados a partir de viejas radiografías desechadas por el Hospital Siglo XXI, se ofrece un recorrido por los versos de una de las poetas mexicanas contemporáneas más representativas.

I am discovering the love that I have for myself. I am finding comfort in being alone. I can take all that time to better myself and my craft. Both entities I have mentioned are improving tremendously. I have made a lot of mistakes, yes. I have said a lot of things that I had no business saying, yes. Through those errors is where the true growth comes in. I'm glad that I was singled out, or not paid any attention to. It gave me all the motivation that I needed. Thank you.

Lucía es pasado es un libro de cambio. En él, al ojo de la mente que se encontraba al principio a oscuras, pero cómodo en su ceguera ante la verdad, se le presenta como un rayo la luz punzante del conocimiento que lo abre y le obliga a ver. El pasado es encarnado por Lucía, que, a pesar de no estar ya, constituye una parte esencial de Luz, la representación del presente despierto. Ante tal descubrimiento, ya no hay posibilidad de volver a la apacible negrura de la ignorancia, pues, incluso cerrando los ojos, “Atraviesa los párpados la luz, / despiadada verdad sin quietud”. Sólo...