The Jaguar
“I wrote this book during an intensely challenging period, as my father was dying, and just after,” Sarah Holland-Batt noted about The Jaguar, a powerful exploration of grief upon losing her father to...
Literature - Poetry
Shadow of Paradise
Shadow of Paradise brings to its culmination the poetic world that Aleixandre began with Passion of the Earth: the elevation of nature to a kind of universal state of grace and the creature’s lament for not...
The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
This is a kind of dramatic poem in which a Joan, not yet entrusted with her mission, engages in dialogue with different interlocutors about matters related to what the title indicates—that is, the central...
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
It may not be necessary to highlight the literary quality of this collection of poems by W. Szymborska, who was awarded the Nobel Prize, which the author received in her time. This Spanish translation of a...
Message
Poetry. A masterpiece, composed of 44 brief standalone poems.
It is the most widely known work of the poet and the one that made him famous. Full of symbols, it nostalgically reflects on the glorious...
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope
Péguy brings a revolutionary perspective to Christianity by redefining tradition itself. As he puts it, “a revolution is a call from a less perfect tradition to a more perfect tradition.” His theology of...
The Waste Land
A poem in five parts - "The burial of the dead", "A game of chess", "The fire sermon", "Death by water" and "What the thunder said". It is a statement of post-war depression and negativity, a protest...
Guwayu - For All Times: A Collection of First Nations Poems
An unprecedented collection of a wide range of contemporary poetry from Indigenous Australian authors in both English and First Nations languages. The poems deal with connection to country, place, land and...
Selected Poems 1963-1983
A beautiful collection of poems from the oeuvre of Marjorie Pizer, an Australian poet. Her poems deal with the beauty of life and the healing process of responding to life's trials. They impart wonderful...
The Death of Jesus
Coetzee finishes with this third story of the boy David after his extensive parable of the two previous installments: “The Childhood of Jesus” (2013), and “The Schooldays of Jesus (2017). All the...