Algo de lo sagrado

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...

Las odas de Ultramar posan la mirada poética en tres objetos de la creación: piedras, olas y cigarras. La autora hace gala de su oficio para brindarnos un poemario en el cual la conciencia, el tiempo, el sueño y la muerte, configuran la voz poética. El libromuestra la importancia que lo simbólico tiene para la poesía de la autora.

Help II En mi mansion vacia, castillo helado, esta el amor de tanta gente y sin embargo me siento como en una gondola de supermercado. Rescatame, con tu imaginacion buena; libera mi poesia y mi alma-cangreja para que asi retumbe el tamboril de los serafines por toda la casa, como antes.

Loving poetry is a symbol of indolence, a challenge that requires solitude and silence, sacrifice and permanent devotion. All that a human being needs to live can be found in poetry, the artistic genre par excellence. El libro de los indolentes is a journey towards an unknown place where we inhabit, each day, a fortified but unwalled space, a river that gushes truth.