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Algún día llegaremos a la luna obtuvo el Premio de la Academia Castellano Leonesa de la Poesía destinado a Jóvenes Creadores 2007. El jurado destacó que se trataba de una obra “muy particular” por el uso que hace de la metáfora, la palabra y las expresiones, por su frescura y porque “encaja perfectamente con la seriedad poética y con la ironía que debe subyacer en toda poesía”.

Poetry. Latinx Studies. Second Edition. In 2010 Hugo García Manríquez set out to work through the North American Free Trade Agreement in Spanish and English. The result is a bilingual artifact that interrupts and re-politicizes NAFTA's neoliberal language, becoming a space of transnational encounter that strangely falls on the same continuum as the work of 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt--a continuum upon which the institutions of Law and Science dream of stabilizing the flux of contingency into the language of the market. No longer univocal in meaning, the remains in...

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...

La autora, en este libro, se sumerge una vez ms en el profundo mundo de la poesa y la reflexin usando la sencillez como elemento destacado.