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BLACK IRISH (SOMERVILLE, MICHELE MADIGAN) (Poesía)

Every line in Somerville's verse packs a wallop. Her bawdy piety and divine colloquialism lets us know that truly a bard walks upon this earth. Nava Renek, Author of Spiritland and No Perfect Words Seventy years later, an ocean removed from the churchyard stone where Yeats' epitaph is carved, Michele Madigan Somerville dares to cast a cold eye on life, on death. But she looks deeper: rather than merely sing "whatever is well made," Black Irish celebrates all that Somerville finds fragile or wounded or broken; neither embalming nor romanticizing the past, these astounding, untrammeled poems excavate & reclaim histories--sacred, pagan, singular, tribal- one might have thought irretrievable. By turns elegiac, amorous, expansive, lapidary, Juvenalian, & vulnerable, Black Irish melds an almost classical austerity with an emotional immediacy that is breathtaking. Too brave & exact an artist not to be drawn toward her own private Byzantium, Somerville's ultimate domain remains "the foul rag & bone shop of the heart"- castoff turtles, mermaid brothers, Brooklyn Christmas trees - familiar & wondrous at once. Where e

NOMEOLVIDES (MAGDALENA,HEREDIA) (Poesía)

Nomeolvides intenta ser un reflejo del corazón de la gente sencilla, la mayoría de las veces anónima, otras, desintencionados protagonistas de algún noticiero. Subjetivo e íntimo, en este poemario, por su contenido, es posible verse reflejado y encontrar en su versos el rostro emocional de muchos. Cuatro capítulos agrupan los poemas del libro. A través de ellos, el mundo que nos rodea, el recuerdo, los deseos, y la esperanza, se adentran en la respiración diaria de su autora y en el amor extenso que asoma su sentir a lo largo de sus versos y a través de la poesía.