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Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries (Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa among them) for his commitment to retelling our many histories, including the stories of those who were disenfranchised. A philosopher poet, his nonfiction is infused with such passion and imagination that it matches the intensity and the appeal of Latin America's very best fiction. This is a deeply considered collection of Galeano's final musings and stories on history, memory, humor, and tragedy.

In this prize-winning poetry collection, we watch as the cartographer, used to assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognise a wholly different understanding of place as he tries to map his way to the rastaman’s eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that every place name comes freighted with history, and not every place that can be named can be found.

In Ernesto, Andrew Feldman uses his unprecedented access to newly available archives to tell the full story of Hemingway’s self-professed Cuban-ness: his respect for Cojímar fishermen, his long-running affair with a Cuban lover, the warmth of his adoptive Cuban family, the strong influences on his work by Cuban writers, his connections to Cuban political figures and celebrities, his denunciation of American imperial ambitions, and his enthusiastic role in the revolution.

A new edition of the "remarkable first novel" from a major voice in Caribbean literature in the Celebrating Black Women Writers series. Written in modified Jamaican patois, Powell traces the life of Gwennie, a strong woman who plays the role of wife and mother while suffering through a loveless and violently abusive marriage to Walter. Faced with choice of remain a victim to her duties or flee from the cruelties of her everyday life, Gwennie decides to start anew and embrace the pressures of sudden and laudable change.

Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation - from inside and out. Standing on both sides of the divide between the US and Cuba, 12 of our most celebrated writers investigate this period of momentous transition.

Un libro de prosa poética sobre temas de fe y filosofía, poesías de amor familiar, amores, vivencias y cuentos. Es una bitácora real, un resumen de amor de mi vida.

¿En la Isla de Pascua hubo una revolución dirigida por una vidente? ¿Es verdad que esclavos africanos pelearon en la Independencia de Chile? ¿Hubo un exorcismo público en Santiago? ¿Cuáles son los misterios que esconde la Antártica? ¿Cuáles son los secretos oscuros detrás de la vida y terrible muerte de José Miguel Carrera? ¿Qué nos han ocultado de nuestro Premio Nobel, Gabriela Mistral?

¿Bernardo O'Higgins fue el gran libertador de la patria o todo es un engaño? ¿Hubo a mediados del siglo XX un sacrificio humano en el sur de Chile? ¿Existió en Chiloé una monarquía ocultista con brujos y magia? ¿Dónde se encuentran los símbolos de poder de Chile? ¿Combatió un barco alemán en plena Primera Guerra Mundial en nuestras costas? ¿Cuál es el gran misterio que ronda la vida amorosa y política de Diego Portales?

The poems in Riddim & Riddles throb with the heartbeat and drum beat of Jamaica. From the cool, majestic Blue Mountains to the hot, bloodied streets of Kingston it paints vivid and vibrant images of contemporary Jamaica. The poems in this collection move from urgent social insights about masculinity, the environment, and how the bony fingers of history reach into the present.

Literatura brasileira: da tinta ao touch é uma viagem pela história da literatura brasileira, desde os primórdios coloniais até os dias atuais. Com uma linguagem leve e descontraída, vamos explorar como a nossa rica tradição literária se reinventou ao longo do tempo até chegar às inovações dos autores contemporâneos nas plataformas digitais. Ideal para quem quer entender e se apaixonar pela literatura brasileira de uma forma envolvente e acessível, este é um guia para agradar todos os leitores.

Em "Os Móveis Continuam Prisioneiros", Jeferson Barbosa nos convida a adentrar uma casa singular, onde cada cômodo abriga poemas-móveis imbuídos de histórias. Através de uma linguagem poética e rica em imagens, o autor explora as profundezas da alma humana, revelando as marcas deixadas pelo tempo, as dores da perda e a fragilidade das relações. Os móveis, silenciosas testemunhas do passado, ganham vida e voz, tecendo narrativas que evocam memórias, desejos e frustrações. A solidão, o amor, a culpa e a busca por significado permeiam os versos, criando uma atmosfera densa e reflexiva.

Poemas escritos entre 1983 y 1986. El poeta mira, imagina, evoca la profecía apocalíptica cumplida durante los dos grandes terremotos de 1985. La desastrosa mañana de aquel septiembre de 1985 "la tierra que destruimos se hizo presente". Un fatídico terremoto demostró "hasta qué punto nos aborrece la tierra: / nos ve como insectos / torturadores que la roen por dentro". Su devastadora venganza puso en evidencia que "es el nombre profundo de la muerte". Los sobrevivientes "¿vamos a hacer / otra ciudad, otro país, otra vida? / De otra manera seguirá el derrumbe".

Poemas escritos entre 1979 y 1983, se trata de la bitácora de un sobreviviente de la tempestad que fue el siglo XX. "Todo es efímero y jamás se repite", afirma José Emilio Pacheco para recordarnos la brevedad de nuestro tránsito por la tierra. Asumimos que "el mar se habrá cambiado en desierto / cuando ya no [estemos] aquí para mirarlo y amarlo", pero olvidamos que esa condición fugaz es la que le da un matiz extraordinario a la existencia: "todo es valioso porque todo es irrepetible". Los trabajos del mar reúne poemas escritos entre 1979 y 1983.

Luego de que el terremoto de 1957 expulsara a su familia del cosmopolita centro de la Ciudad de México, Mauricio Guardiola vive su infancia y adolescencia en las calles de Terminal Progreso, un vecindario incrustado en el paisaje semirrural de Xochimilco que parece haber cristalizado las promesas de un futuro brillante en simple nostalgia por el porvenir.

En un mundo en el que una empresa de teléfonos celulares ejerce una tiranía difusa, en el que en casi todas las casas hay celdas y casi todos los vecinos son carceleros, en el que el principal entretenimiento son las luchas entre presos y animales, en el que pasan muchas cosas en los sótanos, en el que las mujeres están, o son, peladas, cuatro historias: una carcelera, que se ha enamorado de su preso, tiene que ingeniárselas para salvarlo de la puntería de su esposa; un luchador invicto se enfrenta a una prueba que nadie ha superado todavía; un científico que se dedica a reducir cabezas trata

Most known for his creative fictions that tackle literary questions of authorship as well as more philosophical notions such as multiverse theory, Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges has captivated scholars from a variety of disciplines since his emergence on the international scene. However, much of the scholarship surrounding Borges does not focus on the reception of Borges's works in the fields of philosophy, the visual arts, film, political science, media theory, mathematics, and law, nor does it consider how his affiliations and interests changed over the course of his long life.

Dante Alighieri is indisputably one of the world's greatest poets. His epic masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, has been frequently referred to as the supreme work of Italian literature and a staple in the Western Christian tradition. Now, you can explore Dante's life and masterwork with a truly gifted Catholic professor as your guide. In this 12-lecture series, Dante's Divine Comedy, Sr. Mary Clemente Davlin will take you through this timeless narrative that has so profoundly influenced Western history, literature, and the Christian faith.

From acclaimed classicist Gregory Carlson, discover new insights into one of the greatest works of literature ever composed: Homer’s Odyssey. Why does this ancient epic poem continue to enthrall readers/listeners from all walks of life? You’re undoubtedly familiar with the Odyssey in some form. Now, this exciting audio course invites you to discover Homer’s text with new eyes.

La localidad de Chapinero, una de las más tradicionales de la capital colombiana, es el objeto de reflexión obsesiva de Fernández.

In this stunning volume, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic, ancestral, and spiritual journeys that make up a life. The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes’s family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the journeying that has taken him from Ghana, through Jamaica, and to the United States.