Voces De Juncos En El Pantano

Voces de Juncos en el pantano es la historia contada por las mujeres de una familia, historias que no se dicen, que se han guardado en secreto como un intento de ayudar al tiempo y al olvido. Pero la memoria obliga a la confesión, la confesión obliga a contar historias y a cambiarle los nombres a nuestra verdad. La fi cción es otro matiz de la realidad. Esta novela captura mis sentidos, sorprende su prosa, el recorrido de los decorados de una vida de dolor y sufrimiento profundo, de grandes abandonos, incluso de tocar las fronteras delicadas de la locura. Camila, Lotis, Iris, son el ramillete de mujeres ligadas por la sangre de la familia Juncos, que aprenden a penetrar todos los obstáculos posibles para recrearnos esta historia de libertad y superación, de supervivencia. No es sólo enfrentar los muros, es penetrarlos, o en el mejor de los casos, volar sobre ellos. Tal aprendizaje lo da una vida llena de sueños, visiones que perseguir. Lotis amó y fue amada, y la vida en su ruta escabrosa, dictó que hay amores que deben esperar llegar al cielo. Una historia que sale de los rincones más pobres de la isla de Puerto Rico, viaja a la gran ciudad de Nueva York, donde en ambas el abuso, la traición, la vida subterránea sumergen al niño en inmensas violencias. Una historia que sólo puede entenderse con el toque de magia de los milagros. Voces de Juncos en el pantano debe ser leída por todo aquel que desee desenmascarar la realidad de la pobreza, niños y mujeres en su diaria lucha por ser libres para educarse, crecer, amar, y reir. Una historia demasiado humana.

Although today Luis Palés Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the most important poets out of Latin America." Palés Matos was a native, and lifelong resident, of Puerto Rico. Though he was not black, he became one of the Caribbeans leading advocates of poesía negra (black poetry). His landmark 1937 collection Tuntún de Pasa y Grifería: Poesía Afro-Antillana (Tom-Tom of Kinky Hair and Black Things: Afro-Caribbean Poetry) joyously celebrated the African aspects and sources of Puerto Ricos culture and influenced later generations of writers throughout the Western hemisphere. Translator Julio Marzán has selected the best of Palés Matoss poems from throughout his career, among them "Prelude in Boricua," "Danza Negra," "Buccaneer Winds," and "Elegy on the Duke of Marmalade." He also provides a helpful glossary of obscure terms and an introduction that locates Palés Matos in the broader cultural context of his contemporaries and poetic influences including such North American poets as Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vachel Lindsay.

John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now classic work on Celtic spirituality, Anam Cara. Just as To Bless the Space Between Us was being published, he died suddenly at the age of fifty-two. His powerfully wise and lyrical voice is profoundly missed, but his many readers are now given a special opportunity to revisit John in his first book, a collection of poetry. O'Donohue's readers know him as both a spiritual guide and a poet. In the same spirit as his bestselling works, readers will be inspired yet again by John's depth of wisdom and artistry.

RESUMEN: El diccionario de uso del español de María Moliner define falso amigo como "Palabra o expresión de una lengua extranjera que, por ser muy similar a otra de la lengua propia, puede ser interpretada incorrectamente". En una época como la nuestra, en la que el español vive en contacto permanente con el inglés, un diccionario como el de Marcial Prado especialista en este campo y autor también de The NTC's diccionary of spanish false cognates, es una guía segura para los hispanohablantes que leen, trabajan o estudian en inglés. Diccionario de consulta muy recomendable para periodistas, traductores y lingüistas.

"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.

This volume offers a new reading of the Spanish-American novela de la selva genre, often interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. Arguing against the commonly held opinion of the genre’s derivative nature, Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks examines how novela de la selva fiction reimagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective and redefined tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perspectives. Analyzing four emblematic novels of the genre, this book considers the crucial place of the jungle as a locus for the contestation of national and literary identity by post-independence Latin American writers.