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La poesía es un atentado celeste / Poetry Is a Celestial Attack
La poesía es un atentado celeste / Poetry Is a Celestial Attack
Vicente Huidobro

La serie Horizon Carré por iniciativa conjunta de la Fundación Vicente Huidobro, la Universidad de Washington y RIL editores, se propone acercar al público anglolector, en forma bilingüe, selecciones de poesía de grandes autores de la lengua española en cuidadas traducciones, presentadas por escritores y académicos contemporáneos. En esta edición: Vicente Huidobro, uno de los más destacados poetas chilenos, junto con Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda y Nicanor Parra. Iniciador y exponente del creacionismo, es considerado uno de los grandes renovadores de la poesía en lengua española. Se relacionó con escritores de las vanguardias parisinas de hace un siglo como Apollinaire, Breton, …

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Mientras cae la ruina y otros poemas
Mientras cae la ruina y otros poemas
C. S. Lewis

La presente obra constituye la primera antología poética en lengua castellana de la que, sin duda, fue la faceta literaria menos conocida del escritor británico C.S. Lewis.
Se puede afirmar que Lewis se sintió poeta desde sus primeros impulsos literarios hasta el final de su vida. De hecho, sus primeros textos publicados bajo el seudónimo de Clive Hamilton fueron un pequeño tomo de versos titulado Spirits in Bondage (1919) y el largo poema narrativo Dymer (1926). De la misma manera, sus escritos autobiográficos o de carácter privado muestran que su vocación literaria fue, primera y esencialmente, una vocación poética y que ésta se mantuvo firme …

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A Life in Orbit
A Life in Orbit
Ken W. Simpson

In my first book of poetry and prose, The Learning Process, I explored many themes. For my second book, A Life in Orbit, I determined to try something novel and new: a biography in verse. It was a daunting project because I had to revisit my past and translate my thoughts and memories into a discipline of words, lines and verses. I was handicapped to an extent by the restraints imposed by the narrative style. I had to write truthfully, and without embellishment in four-line stanzas, within the time span and framework of eleven periods of my life. These periods …

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Within Scope of Ascension
Within Scope of Ascension
Vincent Augmon

Within Scope of Ascension is a poetic litany of philosophies and prose that addresses a wide range of subject matter on the human condition, from both the past and present.The book hopes to encourage readers to exercise freedom of independent thought, while aiming to inspire patience, tolerance, and acceptance of others' feelings, beliefs, and expressions. It also presents a 300-year historical analysis of specific political, economic, cultural, and social agendas, and their distinct effects on the human condition from 1712 to 2012. The book was written to help forge a universal awareness that can fortify communications and ultimately empathy with …

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You've Got a Friend in Me
You've Got a Friend in Me
B. A. O'Reilly
Says author B. A. O’Reilly, "We were born to be free. Open the pages of this book and smile." You’ve Got a Friend in Me presents a collection of delightful children’s poems about animals trying to survive in the wild, striving to make friends, and searching for their happy place. Each poem comes with a good message for children to embrace as they grow up in a world lacking in love and compassion. It’s always important to make friends!
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Reality
Reality
Pauline Hatton

What makes people tick? Reality: A Collection of Thought Provoking Poetry is written to cover a wide range of diverse subjects that readers will relate to and enjoy. Teenagers can also become aware in advance of things that could cross their path as they age. It is a small book that parents can safely share with their children. Says author Pauline Hatton, "I have felt for a long time there is a lot to be said about life and its characters and the unknown things that people are affected by. This brings out the hidden side of people." Bearing an …

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Lamentations from Sikaman
Lamentations from Sikaman
James Amoateng
This wonderful anthology of poems, Lamentations from Sikaman, covers everything from day-to-day activities to the environment to relationships. The author asks, "Isn’t it strange that a path is smooth, but is still full of pits? But no, that is reality. It tells me about the complexities of life. Put simply, all that glitters is not gold." More precisely, one of the poems tells the tale of a man who leaves his wife for a younger woman. But the young lady screws up his life so badly and he wants to return to his wife. Lamentations, indeed.
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The Komodo Verses
The Komodo Verses
Martina Nicolls
Dr. Martina Nicolls is an international educator and science writer. Her collection of 18 poems, The Komodo Verses: Dragon Poems, delves into the habitat and habits of the largest lizard in the world: the Komodo dragon. Unique to Indonesia, this magnificent reptile is vulnerable to extinction. These insightful poems describe the Komodo dragon in a scientific way. Learn about its scientific name, its description, what it eats, where it lives, how large it grows, how much it weighs, how it walks, and how young dragons are born.
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Bits and Pieces of Life
Bits and Pieces of Life
Belinda Sue
In this beautiful and inspiring collection of fifty poems, Belinda Sue offers a heartfelt journey into the experiences that have touched her life. Bits and Pieces of Life carries a message of hope, spiritual growth, and inner peace that will help guide the reader down their own enlightened path.
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Hombre pequeñito / Tiny little man
Hombre pequeñito / Tiny little man
Alfonsina Storni

La serie Horizon Carré por iniciativa conjunta de la Fundación Vicente Huidobro, la Universidad de Washington y RIL editores, se propone acercar al público anglolector, en forma bilingüe, selecciones de poesía de grandes autores de la lengua española en cuidadas traducciones, presentadas por escritores y académicos contemporáneos. En esta edición: Alfonsina Storni, también conocida por los seudónimos Tao-Lao y Alfonsina, fue una poeta y escritora argentina cuya obra, vinculada con el modernismo, se caracterizó en los comienzos por el acento romántico y la sencillez pero después por una visión más oscura e irónica. Hizo incursiones en la dramaturgia. Storni expresó ideas feministas, …

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Unbounded Flight
Unbounded Flight
Oliverio Girondo

Octavio José Oliverio Girondo (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1891 / Buenos Aires, 1967), known as Oliverio Girondo, born in the same decade as Alfonsina Storni and Jorge Luis Borges, is one of the most noteworthy Argentine poets of the 20th Century. He was a key figure in the twentieth century Bonaerense avant-garde, specifically he was part of the Grupo Florida that worked together on the literary journal Martín Fierro. He was a poet of modernity, big cities, travel, technology, and modern alienation who always strove to renew poetry and find new modes of expression. He experimented with form and language itself …

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Guided by Knowledge, Inspired by Love
Guided by Knowledge, Inspired by Love
Henry Disney
Entomologist, poet and devout Christian Henry Disney illustrates the harmonious relationship between science, art and religion in his sixth published collection of poetry. The sensitive, observant nature of a scientific and a Christian outlook exemplifies a realistic view of man, nature and God. Disney offers an individual perspective that presents a unified view of the complexities of life.
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