Memorias en Purpreas Malvas / Memories in Purple Hollyhocks

Expresarse a través del lenguaje poético es un ejercicio que requiere valentía; en primer lugar, porque cuando el poeta escribe sus versos lo que en verdad hace es desnudar su alma y mostrarla a los demás, sin intención de ofender el pudor de sus lectores, ante su desnudez. En segundo lugar, porque hacer poesía es un arte y la palabra la materia prima esencial para mostrar el alma desnuda a otros, artísticamente hablando. Ahora, tengo la valentía desnuda mi alma de poeta por primera vez y siento el pudor de todo primerizo, pues no acierto a concebir el tono de la recepción que dará...

Poemas escritos por María Cristina López Stewart, militante del MIR secuestrada en 1974 por la DINA, durante la dictadura cívico-militar encabezada por Pinochet, que continúa desaparecida hasta hoy.

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

Catullus is a companion of lovers and of those whom love has disappointed. He is also a satirical and epigrammatic writer who savagely consoles with laughter. Carmina captures in English both the mordant, scathing wit and also the concise tenderness, the famous love for reluctant Lesbia who is made present in these new versions. A range of English metres and rhymes evokes the many modes and moods of this most engaging, erotic and influential of Latin poets. Of Len Krisak's translations of Horace, Frederic Raphael writes, [He] enables us both to enjoy a fresh voice and to hear (and see), very...