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Invention of Love

La invención del amor

Ilan Stavans

Traducción al español de Anahí Ramírez Alfaro Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is also Professor of Poetry at Columbia…

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Eielson: Mutatis Mutandis

David Medina Portillo

Jorge Eduardo Eielson (Lima, 1924) forma parte de una generación de poetas peruanos que reúne, entre otros, a Javier Sologuren, Blanca Varela y Sebastián Salazar Bondy. Se trata de un…

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Aguántame tantito más: Pathology of an Urban Tale

Bradley Warren Davis

Unlike Juan Rulfo, who described the submissive and fatalistic lives of country folks living in extreme deprivation in a depressed agricultural setting, Rose Mary Salum, in a little more than…

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Gioconda Belli, the Naked Voice at the Cutting Edge of Poetry

Gioconda Belli, La voz desnuda a la orilla de la poesía

Benito Pastoriza Iyodo

Readers do not always have the opportunity to know a writer whose poetic work possesses such intensity for life, where the parameters of esthetic experience become fixed by the profoundness…

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Mi íntima multitud: la pluralidad existencial que nos define

Gioconda Belli

Hoy me llega en la intimidad de mi jardín un paquete conteniendo el nuevo poemario de Gioconda Belli. Lo abro con ansiedad y gran expectativa porque llevo años leyendo la…