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Esta antología ilustrada rinde homenaje a Julia Uceda y reivindica tanto su ejemplo moral como la fuerza y la singularidad de su poesía.Publicada con motivo del centenario del nacimiento de Julia Uceda, una de las autoras mas importantes de su generacion y de la poesia española contemporanea, esta antologia es fruto de la colaboracion entre la poeta, que trabajo en ella hasta poco antes de su muerte en 2024, y su sobrino el artista Francisco Uceda. A todo lo que pase y se borre y se pierda recoge poemas de sus diez libros publicados, desde Mariposa en cenizas (1959) hasta Escritos en la corteza de los arboles (2013), y los acompaña de ilustraciones expresamente realizadas para la ocasion, en una hermosa edicion que rinde homenaje a la memoria de Julia Uceda y reivindica tanto su perdurable ejemplo moral como la fuerza y la singularidad de su poesia.

Una erótica personal del deseo invertido, en la que sensualidad y sexualidad son inseparables.«Quise escribir sobre el deseo entre mujeres, lo hice desde mi punto liminal, moví el centro. Escribí sob

Un poemario narrativo por el que desfilan nuestros miedos más primigenios e infantiles.Los relatos que estos versos narran son historias deformadas por el espejo oscuro de la realidad, leyendas contadas del reves; guardan en sus raices una verdad, pero tambien las invenciones y las suposiciones alzan su tronco y sus ramas.A traves del personaje del Coco esa figura antropomorfica de nuestro imaginario infantil Marta Boronat Redondo reflexiona sobre el sentido y los usos de los miedos inculcados, y se adentra en ese territorio movedizo donde el recuerdo toma forma de simbolo y la pesadilla es un estrato mas de la realidad. Con una voz tan afilada como lucida, Infundio (cuentos del Coco) medita sobre la distancia inexacta que hay entre el deseo y el trauma, entre lo que se cuenta y lo que se calla, y se conjura como una elegia feroz a lo que fuimos de pequeños y, sobre todo, a lo que seguimos siendo cuando apagamos la luz.Infundio (cuentos del Coco) fue premiado con el II Premio Ana Santos Payan para proyectos de libros de poesia. El jurado, compuesto por la editora Elena Medel y los poetas Luna Miguel y Javier Rodriguez Martos, destaco del libro la ambicion y la madurez de la propuesta, asi como su dominio de una forma tan compleja como el poema en prosa: Es un proyecto que se mira en Safo y en Ovidio, en los cuentos clasicos Andersen, Perrault, los hermanos Grimm y en el trabajo con la imagen de Federico Garcia Lorca; nos ha entusiasmado su voz.

La generación que ha debutado en el siglo XXI viene con nuevos temas y nuevas formas, y una calidad que no entiende de tiempos.Los poetas españoles que nacieron en la década de los 90 andan acuñando nuevos topicos al tiempo que reformulan o impugnan los heredados. Ha vuelto (por sorpresa) el cristianismo, se han actualizado los poemas de amor (de signo homosexual en muchos casos) y sigue la filologia haciendo de las suyas con sus juegos, con la propia cultura. Deslenguadas, nerviosos y mas o menos libres, han sufrido con fuerza la precariedad, se han encontrado con una concepcion mas hostil de las ciudades, y han dado muchas vueltas a la vocacion, el mundo laboral, las drogas, el sexo o los viajes. Experimentales o endecasilabistas, torrenciales o laconicas, lo natural en cada caso es cierta dispersion autoconsciente, en general feliz (y a veces abiertamente comica), y una estupenda diversidad en lo que al grupo aqui convocado se refiere: veintisiete poetas entre los 35 y los 25 años que han traido a la poesia en castellano un feminismo renovado, a veces un culturalismo neo-novisimo y a ratos algo de locura, un desbarre ilustrado y un presentismo alegre, un hedonismo que reivindica la amistad. Aqui no hay decepcion, hay inquietud: bastante formacion intelectual, poco futuro y ningun hijo real en un contexto en el que les ha tocado estar mas atentos al Ikea que a los vencejos (aunque tambien los hay), prestar mas atencion a Netflix que a los cerezos. La primera generacion de poetas españoles, y en español, que ha debutado ya en el siglo XXI viene con nuevos temas y nuevas formas y, lo que mas importa, con una calidad que no entiende de tiempos, con la cuota de talento natural de siempre. No se dejan atropellar: antes atropellarian ellas y ellos. Y no les gusta mucho sentirse antologados.

Vuelve En un mundo de grises: una auténtica excursión sentimentalTodos ―absolutamente todos― queremos que nos quieran. Es simple. Queremos sentirnos necesitados, queremos que nos pidan que regresemos

Un poemario que busca explicar lo inexplicable, lo que, sin que aparezca ni se muestre, sucede.De las cosas pálidas puede leerse como un catálogo de lo azaroso, como un mapa sin centro o quizá como un bodegon de cosas perdidas. En varios poemas la voz que escribe habla de lo que no aparece, de lo que no se muestra y, sin embargo, sucede. Esas son las afueras de las que trata este libro; afueras fisicas, es cierto, pero tambien afectivas, psicologicas, las afueras de la memoria o del amor. Al mismo tiempo, de fondo se va repitiendo un mantra: estar es todo. Esta idea, sacada de un verso del poeta Juan Gil-Albert verso con el que abre el poemario, nos remite a la decision de aceptar que habitamos un presente que siempre se nos escapa pero que es nuestro recinto vital, y en torno a el debemos comprender nuestras acciones. De las cosas palidas recurre para ello a una cadencia meditativa, sincopada, alterada, pero tambien excentrica e ironica, que es algo que recorre toda la obra del autor. Y es que en los poemas de este libro siempre parece que es domingo por la tarde en un poligono industrial a las afueras de una ciudad pequeña.

La mirada escéptica y serena de una poeta que viene a renovar la literatura en español.«El riesgo de crear —de acceder a la realidad— es el don que trae el poema a este libro que se teje, de asombro

Unaventana a la DivinaComedia,elcolosaluniverso de Dante yobrafundacional de lapoesíamoderna,en la colección Poesía Portátil.La Divina Comedia de Dante Alighieri es sin duda una de las obras poéticas mas geniales que se hayan escrito nunca. Su influencia ha sido fundamental en la configuracion de la mentalidad de Occidente. La presente seleccion, realizada por el poeta Jorge Gimeno, traductor de la celebrada edicion completa de la obra publicada por Penguin Clasicos (Premio Nacional de Traduccion del Ministerio de Cultura de Italia), recoge los fragmentos mas bellos y destacados del gigantesco poema, que todo lector deberia conocer.------Mediadoyaelcamino de lavida,me vi de prontoenuna selvaoscura,ya deltodoperdidoel rumbocierto.------

La poeta Luna Miguel selecciona en este Poesía Portátil los mejores versos de la mejor y más querida poeta italiana del siglo XX: Alda Merini.Nadie ha sido capaz como Alda Merini de ahondar en el amor y la pasion desde una vision tan cruda de su anverso: el dolor y la locura, la muerte y el abandono. Considerada una de las ultimas poetas misticas, su genio poetico desperto temprano, a la par que empezo a ser sometida contra su voluntad a ingresos en centros psiquiatricos. De estos episodios nacieron algunos de los versos mas conmovedores de la poesia italiana moderna, escritos por una mujer que se convirtio en emblema de marginados y artistas, vagabundos e intelectuales.Querida por todos, comprendida por nadie, su poesia resurge ahora en la coleccion Poesia Portatil, una seleccion cuidada y vibrante que invita a descubrir la grandeza de una de las autoras que mejor han sabido transformar el sufrimiento en belleza.

El cuerpo como un campo de batalla, una voz iluminadora que no pide perdón.«Todos los poemas me salen amarillos», escribe Marta Sanz en uno de los versos de este libro. Y es que el amarillo es, aquí,

The first English-language collection from one of Indias most hard-hitting writers, these poems brilliantly exemplify writing as an act of resistance. Militant, satirical, and biting, Kalyani Charal pulls no punches in eviscerating paternalistic - and patriarchal - bourgeois socialists who speak on behalf of others.Writing from lived experience, Charal delineates the bourgeois values that fuel the social machinery of caste oppression, while drawing parallels with social and racial marginalisation around the world. Thus, in her poetry, the specificity of Dalit lives in Bengal, a region which prides itself on its Leftist history and enlightened culture, and whose partition into India and Bangladesh has left a legacy of communal tension, refugees, and statelessness, is at the same time the universality of precarity, marginality and dispossession. Finally, there is space for love - wistful and full-throated, with an attentiveness to the natural world that speaks to her claim that "all Dalit woman writers are eco feminists".

Welcome to Kathryn Grays Hollywood or Home, a poetry collection with as much ruthless glamour as any Old Hollywood movie. These worldly-wise poems explore celebrity culture in a mode that is both seriously playful and playfully serious. Here, melancholy and humour, irony and sincerity can be often found in the same poem, creating a rich experience for the film buff or fan of celebrity culture, as the book is full of easter eggs and movie references.Spectres of Hollywood haunt the collection: moguls, politicians, starlets, and monsters. They leap from screen and stage to page, as in Portrait of my Superego as Mommie Dearest: youre / the one swinging the axe, Mommie.Famous actors drop in to entertain, for example in Meryl Streep is my Therapist or Six Ways of Looking at John Cazale, while writers do their best to pitch their best ideas, working hard to convince: Its "relatable". / Its really "relatable" stuff (High-concept).Film memorabilia is explored, likeThe Deer Hunter s bandana, as well as movie-business secrets: the title of As told by Alan Smithee refers to the alter ego that directors use in movie credits when they want to disown their films.Stock characters and plots show up, like the Handome Weeping Boy, and The Meet-Cute, that scene in a romantic comedy where a couple have a first hilarious or cute meeting. Classic 1980s movies like Pretty in Pink andTop Gun make their cameos. Power couples take their place, like Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner in Night and Day, 1957, and melodrama heightens to Douglas Sirks grand levels in Love. All the stories and characters loom larger than life, and asthe narrator asks, contemplating celebrity Tweets in Fresh Hell,Why cant life be EVERYTHING IN CAPS LIKE CHER?.In decadent celebrity culture, where a star is born every minute and becomes a flop even more quickly, these fierce and funny poems open space for the writer to reassess failures and successes, to overcome writers block, and to remember that we never stop longing for our old dreams to come true. Gray is writing at the top of her game with her much-anticipated second collection. Out of Hollywoods brutal disdain for failure, Gray manages to find spectacle and survival.Grays long-awaited second collection both celebrates and accuses the glamour and imagination of the movies in particular, and of art in general. Whether its Meryl Streep or Ferris Bueller or John Cazale shes writing of, Gray is illuminating, funny, and frequently moving. Underpinning the comedy and satire, though, is a real pain at lifes jolts and times relentlessness: "What happened to the script?", Nick Laird, author of Feel FreeHollywood or Home shines a light on the filmic quality of daily life, reminding us just how thin the membrane between fiction and reality can be. Within its pages we encounter the Mind in various guises: as an invalid from the nineteenth century, a rain-streaked window-pane and (my favourite) a cabinet populated by indescribable figurines. Bristling with energy, humour and kick-ass bravura, at the same time these poems tremble with deeply felt emotion. - Julia Copus, author of Girlhood

T. S. Eliot took George Barker onto the Faber poetry list in 1935 with Poems, when Barker was only twenty-two. This was the beginning of a publishing association which would endure through nineteen further volumes. There was an earlier Collected Poems published in 1957, but this edition, published in 1987 towards the end of the writers life, is the definitive edition. Here, readers have access to the contents of all of those volumes together with lesser-known work published by smaller presses and journals both in the UK and abroad. The book allows us to follow the evolution of a major talent who subscribed to no school and scorned all affiliation, but whose work is uncompromisingly true in both its stylistic integrity and its unswerving conception of poetic responsibility.His work was passionate, intellectually challenging and highly original, his language incantatory and often hypnotic. Peter Wilby, Guardian

In 2021, Magorzata Lebda ran the entire length of the longest river in Poland, the Vistula, from its source in the Beskid Mountains to its mouth at the Baltic Sea. She set out to run as a poet, not as an athlete, to use the rhythms of her own body as a means of understanding and connecting to the rhythms of the rivers body of water, under threat of environmental ruin. Her collection Mer de Glace, which won the Szymborska Prize, is the culmination of her remarkable journey, and a profound meditation on the porosity, reactivity and receptivity of both the body and the natural world, and of their influences on one another.

Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis, and satire, plastic is based on Matthew Rices experience working in a plastic molding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a post-industrial,post-Troubles society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film, and the visual arts. plastic is a poem about feeling a calling whilst submerged in the world of menial labour, uniting what Jacques Ranciere calls the labourers in love with the intellectual nights and those intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people. plastics evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and imaginings.

The ancient Greek word for tragedy () is a compound of goat () and song (). In Phoebe Giannisis Goatsong, the seam that connects human and animal, myths and history, is the body.In Giannisis language, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in his mouth, reminding us of a scene from Platos Phaedrus, where Socrates claims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention of singing, and didnt stop to eat or drink. When the goddess Thetis dips her newborn son, Achilles, into the River Styx to protect all but his famous heel where her hand grips, were told the place of the mothers grip / is the mark of death. Adjacent to the mythical setting is the material, where the rumination of goats, their digestive cycle chewing, swallowing, then recalling food back into the mouth to be reconsidered begins after weaning, and is lain alongside how we think: from the moment of separation / from the mother / they ruminate. In these lyric enactments, all is transformative and transformed; territories of land, the body and history are blurred, and nothing is still.From Homer to Donna Haraway, Derrida to state archives, klephtic ballads and rebetiko, to Parmenides and Giannisis dog, Ivan, the many human and animal voices of Goatsong form an incantatory lyricism and layered engagement unique in literature.

I guess I must have been in two minds about the new day as the daylight gods began to march in straight lines going I dont know wherefrom The Spare RoomIn his first collection for more than a decade, Tom Paulin revisits themes of place, occupation, conflict and legacy, primarily in the context of his native Northern Ireland. Stories and memories, even histories, are shown to be both frail and persistent, troubling and vital. There is a powerful austerity in play as he sets aside the rhetorical force and linguistic dazzle for which he is renowned, to speak simply of later life and the losses it brings: if only some idea / could find its way / through enemy territory / then Id at last begin / to look up at the sky. As outward-looking as ever, he also includes here intimate and resonant versions from Brecht and Ronsard, and from the contemporary Palestinian poet, Walid Khazendar.To say the [Fivemiletown] was one of the best books of the Eighties isnt enough: it is one of the best books I know, or for that matter, am capable of imagining . . . what British or Irish poet was doing anything like this? Michael Hofmann, London Review of BooksTom Paulin is among the best of a great generation of Irish poets.Sunday TelegraphPaulin often creates the illusion that the poem is being made up as he goes along. Spontaneity is difficult to pull off in poetry but it is a Paulin forte. The casualness is only possible because of the absolute control of form, each poem a windbreak for his words . . . Kate Kellaway[Tom Paulins] short, punchy poems are characterised by their ability to evoke images through the smallest details, or through sudden shifts of register ... Mr Paulins poems fight against lazy uses of language ... in Loves Bonfire Mr Paulin demonstrates the strength that comes with saying less, not unlike relying on only a spark for warmth.The Economist

The cleft of a ginkgo leaf recalls a lovers divided self; Greek gods and Persian poets give voice to euphoria and lamentation; and the artist must battle fiercely to bring the visions gifted by his muse intact onto the page. This fresh translation of Goethes poetry offers the reader an introduction to the more personal side of one of the towering figures of German letters. A novelist, dramatist, philosopher, scientist, courtier and in later life considered a sage, he was first and foremost a poet, who again and again worked out his lifes struggles through the medium of verse.Goethe is best known as the author of Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther. This selection brings together his lyric poetry, and with it a representation of his life from childhood to old age: full of travel, romantic fixations, curiosity, nostalgia, deep thought, and above all, writing.

Delightful new versions of the great Welsh medieval poets lyrics - intimate, urgent and timelessDafydd ap Gwilym, the pre-eminent poet of Wales, explored love, desire and the natural world with startling frankness and virtuoso wit. In a sequence freely adapted from Dafydds work, Matthew Francis brings him to life for the modern English-speaking reader: as he waits in the woods for his lover, ogles the girls in church or causes chaos during a midnight assignation. Plants, birds and animals are fondly invoked while weather and the elements - wind, waves, fog and ice - play their part. Passionate in his treatment of sexual themes, Dafydd is equally ready to make fun of his own susceptibility. The Green Month introduces an original and lovable poet who speaks freshly to us from deep in our islands past.

Here is the definitive edition of Seamus Heaneys poetry, with illuminating critical notes, including uncollected poems and a selection of previously unseen material. This is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaneys poetry. It encompasses all the poems Heaney published in his lifetime as well as the small number that appeared after his death: twelve single volumes, from Death of a Naturalist (1966) to Human Chain (2010), and those poems published in pamphlets, journals and magazines or with limited circulation. In addition, the book includes a small selection of previously unseen material. It is a body of work that, in its entirety, resounds with the lyrical beauty and ethical depth cited by the Nobel committee: poems which exalt everyday miracles and the living past. Critical introductions to each collection and notes that illuminate the history and development of the poems make this the essential volume for admirers of the work.Heaneys voice, by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive, is one of a suppleness almost equal to consciousness itself. Helen VendlerMore than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of. John CareyHis is "closeup" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does. John BanvilleThese poems find - in the dowsers gift and the childs perception of the world - images of the marvellous that are also wonderfully grounded. . . Heaney is a poet who deserves to be read in entirety. Jamie McKendrickFor Heaney, there were marvels enough in this world, and never mind the next. Ordinary objects and places - a sofa, a wireless, a satchel, a gust of wind, the sound of rain - were sanctified. Blake Morrison