Semillas

Martin is an expert at losing things, but his mom and grandmother were used to it and took it with patience and a sense of humor. "You'll have to sew your things onto your hands," they told him. Martin didn't let it worry him so much until the day he lost his most beloved possession: the family photo album. He's determined to find it at any cost--but where do lost treasures go? Martin embarks on a fantastic journey to the land of lost things, where he meets great friends, terrible monsters, and an unforgettable adventure. But will he find his album?

Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them is a major new edition of Dickinson's verse intended for the scholar, student, and general reader. It foregrounds the copies of poems that Dickinson retained for herself during her lifetime, in the form she retained them. This is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems to distinguish in easy visual form the approximately 1,100 poems she took pains to copy carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand--arguably to preserve them for posterity--from the poems she kept in rougher form or apparently did not retain. It is the first edition to...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

El aforismo es el quantum del pensamiento, un ensayo brevísimo (el ensayo es un comentario en prosa sobre cualquier tema). Resume en dos líneas la introducción, el desarrollo y la conclusión. Es tan breve, que muchas veces la conclusión cae fuera del texto, justo en la testa del lector. Está sujeto a varias tensiones: no puede ser tan extenso que se confunda con el ensayo breve (dos párrafos ya es demasiado) ni tan breve que se vuelva indescifrable, fragmento de haikú, jirón de frase, pista de adivinanza. No puede ser muy obvio porque quiere ser moderno, sugerir, no explicar. Pero...