Product Description: "Perhaps the most admirable element of Gelman's poetry is the unthinkable tenderness he shows . . . calling upon so many shadows for one voice to lull and comfort, a permanent caress of words on unknown tombs."—Julio CortázarAs Juan Gelman's name begins appearing with regularity on lists predicting Noble-Laureate-deserving poets, his work has also begun to appear in English...read more

This landmark bilingual anthology contains the work of thirty of the major Spanish poets of the twentieth century translated by some of the major poets of the United States and reappears in print for the first time in two decades.

'English-only edition of poems written from exile, prison, and on the run by the Salvadoran revolutionary whose life and word urged love as well as change. Selected from 10 of his collections including two posthumous manuscripts, but none are from Poemasclandestinos (1980). The vital force of the intimate, conversational Spanish challenges the translators. Introductory essays by Ernesto Cardenal, Claribel Alegrâia, and Hardie St. Martin recommend work for the classroom and the general reader'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

A Chilean writer and his wife escape to Madrid, where they try to recapture their creativity and renew their lives on a vacation that seems to be a disaster, but, in the end, serves its purpose

Guillermo, a writer who works as a harvestor for the Standard Fruit Company in Honduras, falls in and out of love against the background of strikes, dances, a revolution in nearby Nicaragua, and United States helicopters flying overhead