Poesía

DIEGO JESÚS JIMÉNEZ. LEER Y ENTENDER LA POESÍA

Diego Jesús Jiménez (1942-2009) es uno de los poetas más relevantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, por su aportación a la renovación de la lírica española a partir de los años 60. Con un lenguaje visionario, pero a la vez profundamente enraizado en las vivencias cotidianas y consciente de su pertenencia a un espacio y tiempo concretos, su poesía evoluciona desde una consideración del lugar del hombre en la existencia hacia una imagen legendaria y abigarrada de la historia, en una línea decidida de compromiso que nunca renuncia a una rica elaboración del lenguaje y a la reflexión sobre la relación entre las artes. Su obra, merecedora de dos Premios Nacionales de Poesía y un Premio de la Crítica, recibe aquí un exhaustivo estudio por parte de los más destacados expertos.

WHEELCHAIR SAMURAI

Lee Rossi's third book of poems sketches a life in shades of contradiction, futility and want. Interrogating the self as ruthlessly as the Grand Inquisitor, these poems enact rituals of disillusionment. The self, final refuge of beatniks and idealists, is discovered to be the quagmire the bodhisattvas warned us about. Rossi advises us to abandon hope then welcome it when, yet again, life disappoints every expectation, even the most dire. "Lee Rossi is a poet of wit and elegance. The poems in his third collection, Wheelchair Samurai, will engage, inform, delight, and surprise the reader. The range of multilayered subjects is vast: motel sex, poverty, Descartes and the legendary fly, hilarious alternative endings to The Story of O, tattoos "covering the drive-in movie screen of his [brother-in-law's] back," a lunar eclipse, death, and Francis Bacon. What seems casual at first glance, emerges as a profound meditation on life (human, animal, insect) and nature. We are all inextricably connected in Rossi's metaphorical world. [Still, there is often an underlying sense of sadness and betrayal.] One poem in particular, "Letter to a Grandchild," is sound advice for living, writing, loving. This is a poet at the top of his form and the wise reader will sit back and listen." Gloria Vando, author of Shadows and Supposes "Lee Rossi is a masterful tour guide through landscapes of the sacred and profane, a universe of moments both heartbreaking and funny, where fighting roosters are 'pit bulls with feathers,' and the summer air is 'a minestrone of milkweed and pollen.' These poems are scintillant with wit, shot through with sudden revelations and the startling, brief gleam of compassion and truth. Like the crowd gathered around a suicide in 'Almost Icarus,' Rossi keeps us, his readers, 'straining for a glimpse of that body / its imperfect beauty as fragile as our own.'" Ruth L. Schwartz, author of Dear Good Naked Morning and Edgewater "As Rossi says in one of these poems, 'surfaces betray.' And so he delves, finding the truth that lies beneath. The poetry in this compelling collection exposes the dark and the light of human relationships - between husbands and wives, soldiers and lovers, fathers and sons, gods and goddesses." Frances Lefkowitz, editor, reviewer, and author of To Have Not: A Memoir.

EL ARTE DE OLVIDAR

Ya lo decía Neruda: «Qué corto es el amor...». Ahora, nos toca aprender el arte más prolongado del ser humano: el arte de olvidar. El arte de olvidar: En el Griego antiguo, la palabra «olvidar» significaba «en contra de lo oscuro». En esa oscuridad se ocultan nuestros miedos, nuestra nostalgia, nuestra incertidumbre, todos aquellos recuerdos que queremos olvidar. Es en esa penumbra donde nace este arte, el arte de olvidar, el que nos enseña que no hay forma de hacerlo, sino es amando nuestros miedos muy fuerte, hasta convertirlos en nuestro castillo.

LAS HORAS CONTADAS

Sexto poemario de Ana Montojo, surgido simultáneamente a los dolorosos acontecimientos que relata. Escribe desde el instante que está viviendo, desde la inmediatez del dolor, con el desgarro vivo, no recordado sino absolutamente vigente.

CONFLICT TOURS

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FINDING ZEN IN COW TOWN

Celebrate the kickoff of National Poetry Month by joining us for a reading of poetry about Kansas City at the beautiful, downtown Ilus Davis Park! Spartan Press is delighted to release “Finding Zen in Cowtown,” a book featuring the poems of thirty poets who live in and around Kansas City. This unique collection features poems by former Kansas Poet Laureate, Denise Low; founder of the Latino Writers Collective, Jose Faus; founder of Prospero’s Books, Will Leathem; and many more spoken word and poetry voices in our community. It’s very moving to read poems which talk about local BBQ joints and sports teams, major intersections and highways, neighborhoods, public figures and the shared history of Kansas City citizens; this book is a true-blue dedication to our home, our City of Fountains, our Cowtown.

SAND AND SKY

Sand and Sky: Poems from Utah is an anthology of poems contributed by poets from Utah. The volume shares a sense of place, time, and people as well as expression of life and love in the American west. Contributors: Margo Andrews, Roger Evans Baker, Vera Ogden Bakker, Marilyn L. Ball, Shanan Ballam, Cindy Bechtold, Neil Bowen, Doug Brewer, Markay Brown, Marleen Bussma, D. Gary Christian, Tyler Clark, Anastasia M. Clarke, Brock Dethier, Stacy W. Dixon, Fae Ellsworth, Lin Vernon Floyd, Bonnie Glee, Lynne H. Goodhart, Sylvia Ruth Gray, Dawnell Hatton Griffin, Maurine Haltiner, Lindsay Jane Hanks, Alina Hansen, Rebecca Holt, Lorraine Jeffery, Grace Diane Jessen, George King, Kate Kirkham, Marjorie Kyriopoulos, Lance Larsen, Satyam S. Moorty, Florin Nielsen, Joel Passey, Gail M Peterson, Patricia Peterson, Susan Randall, Susan Roche, Natasha Saj?, Eva Sanchez, Meghan Nuttall Sayres, Rasoul Shams, Carolyn W. Taylor, Melanie Rae Thon, Howard Nelson Tuttle, Linda Waters

LA PARED VERTICAL

Antonio Duque (Madrid, 1943) reside en Sevilla desde hace bastantes años. Ha publicado los libros Ritual de la ausencia (1989), Ocre, violeta y gris (Premio San Lucas, 1992) y La casa del sueño (Premio San Lucas, 1995). La pared vertical ha obtenido el Premio San Lucas 1997.

JARDÍ AMB CANGURS

PARADALes parades de bus són una noiaamb un impermeable groc;les parades de bus són la senyoraque mira els números i que s¿asseu,per després mirar el rellotge amb calma;les parades de bus són algú que estossega;són les motos que passen per davant-La Vanguardia, Renault,les baldrigues i els manatins-; són, finalment,l¿autobús que s¿hi atura i les esborra.