Poetry

This book travels through places such as New York, Havana, several Argentine cities, and Madrid, while the poetic voice simultaneously journeys through various stages of motherhood: the birth of a first daughter, hope and also danger, illness, then a second pregnancy, miscarriage, grief, and...

The Kosala Samyutta is a testament to the early development of Buddhism and its interaction with secular power in ancient India. Through King Pasenadi, it shows how Buddhist principles were integrated into the governance and society of the Kosala kingdom. Focusing on practical matters,...

Yolanda Blanco, the youngest of 'The Six' Nicaraguan poets of the 1970s, is a key figure in Central American literature. This anthology gathers her best texts, reflecting themes such as identity, motherhood, love, social criticism, ecology, and politics. In addition to her poetry, she...

A relationship between two people that inevitably leads to a multiplicity of possible bonds. The revelation of what seems obvious but is often ignored: that the other person is sovereign and unfathomable. In this work, the voice doubts, trusts, constructs the mutual, and celebrates...

María Negroni traces representations of nature, blending the visible with the expressible, in her quest for a meaningful whole. With deep lyricism, she recreates the dreams of the classics, the naturalist fervor of the Renaissance, and the fascination with nature in the Enlightenment. This...

"Song of Napalm" by Bruce Weigl is a collection of poems that hauntingly and deeply recalls the Vietnam War. Through the story of an American soldier, Weigl captures his descent into hell and his return to life on the surface. With memorable poems and...

At long last, an accessible little book that focuses on the teachings of Rumi's teacher and inspiration, Shams of Tabriz. Included in this slim, charming volume is a biographical sketch of the great Sufi teacher and mystic and a new translation of 500 of...

Microdose is a diary written over the last two years in which Enrique Bunbury decides to experience in his consciousness the intake of microdoses of psilocybin. This is an experiential and intimate book that contemplates the daily routine with eyes that open the doors...

An essential book for lovers of trees and poetry. More than seventy poems by writers such as Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Wisława Szymborska, Rafael Alberti, Camilo José Cela, Gioconda Belli, Fernando Pessoa, Walt Whitman and many more. Leticia Ruifernández takes us on a...

John Keats is one of the first and most assiduous cultivators of metapoetry in his century. In this sense, and in others, he already heralds Rimbaud and Rilke. Like the first one, he is a visionary poet. Like the second, he turns what he...

No one behind, no one forward. The way that the ancients opened has been closed. And the other, wide and easy, of all, does not go anywhere. I'm alone and I make my way.... This edition of Octavio Paz's poems brings together all the...

The figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) shines like lightning in a post-war European culture. A poet, essayist, and filmmaker, his freewheeling intellectual attitude allowed him to be a lucid, astute, and compassionate commentator on the Italy of his day. For Pasolini, poetry was...

An essential anthology of Antonio Machado with selected poems by Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar, illustrated by Leticia Ruifernández, and with an epilogue by Julio Llamazares. This beautiful and illustrated anthology follows the life path of the poet: Seville, Madrid, Soria, Baeza, Segovia, again Madrid, Valencia,...

Anne Sexton breathes new life into seventeen fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers, reinventing them as poems full of contemporary references, feminist ideals and morbid humor. The poet takes these stories out of the realm of the fantastic and brings them into the everyday...

Posthumously published in 1964, this is Sylvia Plath's last collection of poems and it came with some controversy, as her husband, Ted Hughes, edited the original manuscript by deleting or adding some poems. This divided the critics between those who improved it as an...

Each one of us is on an inner journey, and this book is a guide for that journey. Use it as a means for exploring yourself, or simply read the beaty of Rumi's poetry-words that transcend time and place and take you to the...

Love moves my verses, verses have sometimes been the most effective antidote to pain after an escape, or an astonished reception in the face of an unexpected discovery". This book full of love summarizes the life of its author, Zoe Valdes. Each verse is...

Hannah Arendt is recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.This volume brings together all of Hannah Arendt's poems for the first time and shows that her work, without a close relationship with poetry, would be inconceivable. / En este...

This book completes Daniel Barbadillo's poetic trilogy in which the author approaches poetry from an erotic point of view. In these lines you will find love, heartbreak, and above all an overdose of verses that are engraved in fire in the passion of a...

Song of Myself,” the premier poem in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is widely believed to be one of the most important poems in American literature. A large part of the brilliance of “Song of Myself” is the raffish playfulness of its diction—the poem...