Poesía

PROSA DEL TRANSIBERIANO Y EL FORMOSE

La elección de los poemas responde al deseo de recorrer su «poesía en movimiento», nutre la leyenda del poeta-viajero y nos adentra en las reflexiones, la vida, la búsqueda del universo y los escritos de este hombre insaciable y contradictorio.

DIBUJANDO UN MAPA EN LA NOCHE

¿Cómo no ver una correspondencia con las estrellas que en el poema de Horacio guiaban a los navegantes que respetaban el cielo? Son ellos los que merecen el día, los que pasean con lentitud su corazón por esta desolada estepa, los «que se repiten bajito una oda » y poseen, como dice un verso de Juan Felipe que Horacio y Lucian Blaga habrían aprobado, « una fe ciega en el poder de la palabra para darnos valor y permitirnos cruzar el bosque en la noche». Del prólogo de Eduardo Chirinos

GHOST SENTENCE

“Incendiary, dizzying, deadpan, GHOST SENTENCE is a love letter, an ultimatum, a wildly poetic survival guide to the death throes of the patriarchy, our age of bogus authority, white noise, and disembodied menace. Flanagan's charged lines shimmer between desire and disaster: "everyone knows it's not safe to/go out on a brimstone night/ especially with you"' "leaves still cling to the trees but/the sun is telling them to drop dead." This book coins a new language for a world that blazes all around us. GHOST SENTENCE is brilliant, contemporary to the millisecond. “—D. NURKSE, author of eleven books of poetry including Love in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseult (2017), A Night in Brooklyn (2012), The Border Kingdom (2008), and Burnt Island (2006). His recent prizes include a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim fellowship. He has also written on human rights and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.“Written under the spell of 2016 election and under the weather of our local dictator’s inauguration, GHOST SENTENCE plunges into the chaos to give us a core sampling, deeply personal and political. Our sentence may be dire, but the phantom grammars, crypt words, semantic branchings, and spectral logics of this hauntology resist the consumerist doublespeak of now. Flanagan’s “voracious mouth” playfully spews “a hot core of knowing” at lovers and dictators alike. She weaponizes poetic structures by loading them with history, philosophy, theory, heart, humor, and an intimate sense of you. Yes, you were waiting for this book.” —CHRISTINE HUME, author of Musca Domestica (2000), Alaskaphrenia (2004), and Shot (2010), Hume is also Professor of English at the Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University.“These poems begin with personal concerns which find themselves afloat and submerged in the currents of today's political waters. "_Are you near_ or / _Can you swim?_" Mary Flanagan asks, posting updates with God, wondering at America's endless varieties of toilet paper and fake news, and meeting a vampire who is neither teen, nor paranormal, nor romantic. GHOST SENTENCE makes something hauntingly real out of several sorts of profound, contemporary crises.”— NICK MONTFORT, author of Autopia (2016), the collaboration 2×6 (2016), #! (2014), and forthcoming, The Truelist (2017). He is Professor of Media Studies/Writing at MIT.“Grief at a lost love, and grief and fury at a lost America, power Mary Flanagan’s compelling, original Ghost Sentence. The private and the public merge: a personal voice and sensibility reacting to a lost, terribly flawed personal love (no less missed because flawed); and a grief-stricken, rage-fueled depiction of what it’s like to be living though this American moment. Ghost Sentence is passionate, original, and oddly bracing—a book not to be missed.”—PATRICIA CARLIN, author of Second Nature(2017), Quantum Jitters(2009) and Original Green 2003), as well as Shakespeare's Mortal Men (1993). She has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street.

MAGIC QUILL, SACRED SWORD

This book is a collection of observations and poetic reflections of knowledge and wisdom gained through life experiences. Golden threads of higher vibration through the initiations of spiritual alchemy and the healing of wounds. It shares perspectives of the power of forgiveness and freedom beyond judgment. This book whispers of sacred truth, hidden keys, light and shadow and the beauty of our sacred temples.