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Giraversos es una Antología de poesía infantil iberoamericana que agrupa poemas con la temática del universo, la naturaleza y los objetos relacioandos con la misma. Son 41 poemas de autores como Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Tiellier, Rafael Alberti, Gonzalo Millán y Julio Barreneachea, entre otros.

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada, featuring an essay by Kristin Dykstra. "Omar Perez Lopez (1964-) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba. A former journalist, Perez has explored a wide array of literary genres, particularly poetry, translation, and the essay...At the center of SOMETHING OF THE SACRED is the exploration of displacement. Perez sees poetic metaphor as 'the subtle displacement of something objective'...His apparent strangeness, particularly in his varied uses of Zen traditions, ...

For Eduardo Urios-Aparisi poetry is above all, word, spoken word. Word that commits, pronounces, sounds. Word that leaves knots in the voice. For Urios, words play and challenge to play, to conceive the world from different and unsuspected points of view. The poems reflect the senses of the poet; moment to moment, in seduction, abandonment, and loss. It is reality flowing and always fleeing; fragmentary, accelerated, changing and unattainable.

Reflexionario de mareas es la trova quizá insolente de esa mujer que -arrullada por el susurro amigo de la mar- aprende a decir yo frente al resto del mundo. Rosa Galdona asegura que “la oscuridad es infinita si la aurora no te alcanza aunque amanezca”. Para ella, un día amaneció. Se hizo la luz en sus sentimientos adormilados. La larga noche vivida quedó atrás pero no quiso olvidarla. Todo aquel sinsentido se transformó en palabra como necesidad vital de quien necesita liberarse para escalar en su identidad. Así esperó Rosa su momento, retrasado por la intransigencia de los...