Presentamos, en versión del poeta, ensayista y traductor argentino Marcelo G. Burello, un poema, el primer texto que Walter Benjamin publicó en vida. Burello es Doctor en Letras. Docente en las Facultades de Filosofía y Letras y Ciencias Sociales de la UBA. Miembro del comité editorial de la revista “Buenos Aires Poetry”. Su obra lírica comprende…
Mario Licón Cabrera (México, 1949) is the main spanish-speaking connoisseur of Australian poetry, and a recognized poet himself. A resident of Sydney since 1992, he has translated the most relevant poets from multiple different generations and aesthetics present in the tradition of that country: because of him we have translations of poets such as Dorothy…
Presentamos dos poemas de uno de los mayores poetas portugueses del Siglo XX: Herberto Hélder (1930-2015) Poeta, narrador, periodista y traductor. Su poesía se ha reunido en el volumen Ou o Poema Contínuo. Hélder está considerado como uno de las mayores poetas de la lengua portuguesa de nuestro tiempo. Las versiones son de José Ángel García Caballero. …
Today at Círculo de Poesía: three poems by Hilda Conkling (Northampton, 1910-1986). She is famous because during her childhood, between four and ten years, she writes almost all her poems. The translations are by Adalberto García López. Presentamos tres poemas de Hilda Conkling (Northampton, 1910-1986). Es conocida entre otros hechos porque en su infancia, entre…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Wole Soyinka (Abeokuta, 1934) is an nigerian poet, essayist, playwriter and novelist. In 1989 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature and he became the first african writer to be honored with such distinction. The present Spanish versions are by Mario Bojórquez. Presentamos, en versión bilingüe, un poema de Wole…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Octavio Paz (1914-1998) is one of the most influential poets of the Spanish Tradition in the Twentieth Century; he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. Here we present his poem “Hymn among the ruins,” translated into Spanish by the great American poet William Carlos Williams. Presentamos, en versión…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Edwin Brock (Dulwich, 1927-1997). In addition to writing poetry he was police officer and a publicist. He was editor of the magazine Ambit. In 1990 he published his anthology Five Ways To Kill A Man: New and Selected Poems. The translation is by Antonio Cisneros. Presentamos un poema del poeta…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Carol Ann Duffy (Glasgow, 1955), for her poetry she has deserved the Eric Gregory Award, the Scottish Arts Council Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Award and in 2005 the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is the poet of the English court since 2009. Spanish version by Edgar Amador (Coahuila, 1967)…
Today at Círculo de Poesía: Sujata Bhatt (Ahmedabad, 1956), indian poet. Some of his books are Brunizem (1988), Monkey Shadows (1991), Augatora (2000), The Colour of Solitude (2002) and Pure Lizard (2008). She deserved the Poetry Book Society and in 2014 the Premio Internacional de Poesía Nuevo Siglo de Oro, which is granted by the…
La poeta Biancamaria Frabotta (Roma, 1946), nos regala una pequeña selección de sus poemas que han sido publicados en la Antología bilingüe Caminos del agua, poetas italianos del segundo Novecientos (traducción de Erika Reginato, Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, Venezuela, 2008). La elección de sus poemas en esta Antología ha sido producto de una investigación y…