Publicada en 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada es uno de los máximos exponentes del modernismo literario latinoamericano, que colocó al joven Pablo Neruda en la vanguardia de la poesía en lengua española, en un fascinante recorrido que culminó con la obtención del premio Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1971. "Published in 1924, Twenty love poems and a song of despair is one of the greatest exponents of Latin American literary...

A carefully and beautifully illustrated edition, taking Jorge Luis Borges' favorite adaptation of this classic, and also including a version of the story by Margaret Atwood.We all know the story of The Odyssey , even if we haven't read it. It is in songs, in novels, in poems, in pictures, in jokes. Blackie Books kicks off its collection "Liberated Classics" with the story of all western stories, giving a voice to Nick Cave and Mary Beard or Ovid....

When students ask author René Saldaña, Jr. how one becomes a writer, he says, "It's complicated." In this memoir written in verse for young adults, the author remembers his boyhood and the path that led to his becoming a reader, writer and scholar. This touching portrait depicts the development of a writer and the impact his rural, Mexican-American community had on his growth into a published author and university scholar. Written in an accessible...

This collection of poems by Jesus Papoleto Melendez reads as a poetic autobiography of a hopeless romantic. Borracho invites us to find the essence of a man's character laid bare in the foibles of his desire and passionate pursuit of love. Spanning the poet's fifty-year career, this volume of fifty love poems takes us on a journey through the poet's winding paths of love and life. Beginning with poems dedicated to his mother and father, the cascading...

"This poetry book brings together a selection of poems written throughout these last few years; years of searching and interior finds. They talk about a wondering, not of the body but of the mind, a personal state of doubt and constant questioning that are renewed over time"--

Erotic poem by the Latin author Ovid.

"Antonio Machado fue el miembro mas joven de la generacion del 98, un grupo de intelectuales muy identificado con las tierras castellanas. La publicacion de Soledades en 1903 lo revelo como poeta extraordinario y el exito de su obra maestra, Campos de Castilla, le situo como uno de los poetas mas relevantes del pais. Esta seleccion contiene algunos de sus versos mas emblematicos, influenciados por la lirica popular y conjuncion de una extrema sobriedad...