The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets.Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolaño, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness and death, Pizarnik explored the sh...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATIONFinally, the Colombian Fernando Vallejo’s masterpiece, The Abyss, is available in English in a stunning translation by Yvette SiegertLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWinner of the Rómulo Gallego Prize, The Abyss is a caustic masterwork of incredible power and force, an unforgettable autobiographical work of queer fiction. ...

"Spanish Grammar - Theory and Exercises" is an indispensable guide for all the people who want to learn spanish. The book explains each area of grammar clearly and concisely. Each lesson is accompanied by examples and exercises. The book contains 1300 exercises.

Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!"Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery re-imagining of the world. Mostly written on the island paradise of Capri (the idyllic settin...

The Nobel Prize winner 's classic collection of love poems.Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn't publish them publicly until 1963. Thi...

Learn Spanish fast: Aprenda Español rápidamenteAs you may already know, Spanish is not an easy-to-learn language.The best way to try to master Spanish is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.In this book, you will find the corresponding English version below every Spanish Modismo, plus a couple of ready-to-use examples to help you catch its full meaning.Learn 250 Spanish

These Spanish Short Stories are, for the most part, realistic pictures of the manners and customs of modern Spain, written by masters of Spanish prose. All were written in the second half of the nineteenth century or in the first decade of the twentieth,-except the story by Larra, which was written about seventy-five years ago. And all describe recent conditions,-except the tale, partly historical and partly legendary, by Bécquer, which goes back to the invasion of Spain by the French unde...

Un compendio de nueve cuentos bilingües infantiles en español e inglés donde el lector puede contemplar y visitar lugares imaginarios sin salir de su casa. Incluye temas para reflexionar. A collection of nine bilingual children's stories in Spanish and English where the reader can contemplate and visit imaginary places without leaving home. Includes ideas to think about.

This book aims to teach Spanish idiom. The greatest hindrance to the use of idiomatic Spanish lies in the failure to realize that common English words have various Spanish meanings. To meet this difficulty, the notes and exercises of Spanish Composition are focused on the errors beginners most frequently make. For instance, attention is drawn to the fact that words like up, down, out, in, away are usually included in the Spanish verb, which is often entirely different from the English expr...

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially th...

En la época final de Mao, cuando le preguntaron al primer ministro chino Zhou Enlai qué pensaba de la Revolución Francesa, después de dudar un instante, respondió: “Todavía es demasiado pronto para poder decir algo al respecto”.Seguramente es demasiado pronto para poder decir algo sobre la civilización individualista de nuestros días. Pero no es demasiado pronto para hablar del estado del problema de la libertad y de su significado para el futuro del colectivo humano.Basta con observar la ...

Sofa y el regalo de las hadas es una aventura mgica para la imaginacin ya que planta las semillas para hacernos concientes acerca de la naturaleza y de la forma como estamos conectados y nos relacionamos con todos los seres vivientes. Un mensaje maravilloso para dar y compartir.