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Publicado en 1924, el poemario lanzó a su autor a la fama con apenas 19 años de edad, y es una de las obras literarias de mayor renombre del siglo XX en la lengua castellana. El libro pertenece a la época de juventud del poeta, ya que fue escrito y publicado cuando no contaba aún con veinte años. Su origen se suele explicar como una evolución consciente de su poética que trata de salirse de los moldes del modernismo que dominaban sus primeras composiciones y su primer libro, Crepusculario. La obra está compuesta por veinte poemas de temática amorosa, más un poema final titulado La canción desesperada. A excepción de este último, los poemas no tienen título. Aunque el poemario esté basado en experiencias amorosas reales del joven Neruda, es un libro de amor que no se dirige a una sola amante. El poeta ha mezclado en sus versos las características físicas de varias mujeres reales de su primera juventud para crear una imagen de la amada irreal que no corresponde a ninguna de ellas en concreto, sino que representa una idea puramente poética de su objeto amoroso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 9176377113\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9789176377116\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Neruda, Pablo\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: L'Aleph\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"L'Aleph","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Feb 2020)","offer_id":46079835832517,"sku":"9789176377116","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9789176377116.jpg?v=1776032133"},{"product_id":"burn-me-back","title":"Burn Me Back","description":"\"My Spanglish,\" Peggy Robles-Alvarado declares, \"drops the -s and makes it ma' o meno',\" replaces accent marks with side-eye, \"has a Tía sin papeles,\" and recognizes that \"there is no other way to say-- \/ \u003ci\u003eCónchole papi, you look good!\u003c\/i\u003e\" Igniting across tongues, cultures, and countries, the incendiary poems in \u003ci\u003eBurn Me Back\u003c\/i\u003e harness the incantatory power of language through hybrid forms, preserving a beloved father's memory, enshrining the legacy of the Latino immigrant community in Washington Heights and the Bronx, reimagining the world we share, and speaking toward a hopeful multiplicity of possible futures. At the cross section of Puerto Rican and Dominican diasporas, rooted in ancestral narratives and infused with generational dislocation, this speaker refuses to abandon what resists translation, makes the space she needs, and transforms objects as she names them: \"My Spanglish knows a fire escape is also a terrace.\" Yes, the language here is a feat of engineering -- a design shaped by the conditions of emergency, an architecture of survival, deliverance to open air. Like isolating the notes in a thunderous chord, Robles-Alvarado dexterously teases out each word's many meanings, listening for the individual strains that created her as she archives family lore and fleshes out her personal history, writing against patriarchy while codifying working-class wisdom. 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Each of the poems included here are visitations from writing selves of the past and present that still have something to say to me and, I hope, to my readers\u003c\/i\u003e, Julia Alvarez tells us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these poems, Alvarez traces her life gently, a fingertip following lines on a page, through memories of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, a dictatorship dramatically survived, the smell of \u003ci\u003esancocho \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003esofrito, tías \u003c\/i\u003eand the sisters who forged her, her move to America and the challenges of learning English, the search for mental health and beauty, redemption, and success. We meet her grandchild and her mother, her lovers, and the homes where she grew up and into the formidable writer read in thousands of classrooms across America today. In these poems, her wisdom is as clear and beautiful as the light that shines through crystal, and yet grounded through form and the substance of self-knowing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold with a storyteller's intimacy and the comfort of a warm hearth, here is a master writer's reflection on family, aging, love, the body, having a voice, and the very act of poetry itself, experienced across the arc of decades--a collection of searching for an artistic voice, for the author's very essence, until \"the way it sometimes happens: we arrive \/ where we were promised, belong to \/ what we longed for in ourselves, each other.\"\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593805038\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593805039\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Alvarez, Julia\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Apr 2026)","offer_id":46080884801733,"sku":"9780593805039","price":25.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593805039.jpg?v=1776041431"},{"product_id":"startlement-new-and-selected-poems","title":"Startlement: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatured on NPR'S \"Fresh Air\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"Most Anticipated\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStartlement\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of rare treasures. 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These poems, ruminant at times with memories and dreams, mournful or sparkling with joy at others, blaze with a poetic force, sharpness and realness that have always been among the hallmarks of Emanuel's poetry. They also possess a truthfulness and intimacy that draw you into the heart of the poet's experiences, never sacrificing humor or an unforgettable turn of phrase, showing how a true literary artist lives, survives, and thrives as a brown, queer man in the 21st century.\" -John Keene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eStill, We Are Sacred\u003c\/em\u003e, Emanuel Xavier gathers poems of queer survival, memory, and belonging. Moving through faith and doubt, family and chosen kin, love, grief, and joy, these poems honor lives shaped by resistance and care. At once elegy and affirmation, the collection insists on tenderness as a radical act and on the holiness of those who remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmanuel Xavier\u003c\/strong\u003e is a queer Latinx poet whose work emerged from New York City's ballroom culture and the Nuyorican arts movement. An unexpected literary voice shaped outside traditional institutions, he writes toward survival, faith, sexuality, and chosen family. He is the author of several poetry collections, including \u003cem\u003ePier Queen\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmericano\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIf Jesus Were Gay\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLove(ly) Child\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1608643956\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781608643950\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Xavier, Emanuel\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Queer Mojo\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Queer Mojo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Apr 2026)","offer_id":46291842629829,"sku":"9781608643950","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781608643950.jpg?v=1780113166"},{"product_id":"todos-somos-sagrados-all-are-sacred","title":"Todos Somos Sagrados\/All Are Sacred","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Rey M. Rodríguez has written a love letter to all of us women, sisters, mothers. His is an important voice that needs to be heard. His words, full of poetry and heart, will touch your soul and make you feel less alone.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Across a Hundred Mountains, winner of the American Book Award and the Premio Aztlán Literary Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A treatise in poetry about one of the most important stories of our time-the formation and work of Proyecto Pastoral in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Violence, drugs, and death plagued these streets, which in the 1990s and into the 2000s were the most gang-inflicted in the country. But mothers stood up for healing, peace, for saving the children. Projects arose to help youth but also the unhoused and migrants. People in need. God's work. Powerful figures like Father Greg Boyle met the call. Here Rey M. Rodríguez uses poems to carry their voices, stories, pains, and joys. In Spanish and English, in any language, it's a work of art, a work of action.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Luis J. Rodríguez, former Los Angeles Poet Laureate, author of \u003cem\u003eAlways Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A\u003c\/em\u003e.\" and \u003cem\u003eIt Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Written for the community and the love found within, Rodríguez's collection is a moving tribute to the women of Boyle Heights. With keen tenderness, Rodriguez's ability to share the stories about the women, mothers and grandmothers of his community, in a place that provides both sanctuary and loss, with the ceaseless nature of love is both inspiring and impressive. Rodriguez's words reveal the light found within.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-m.s. RedCherries, author of \u003cem\u003emother\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the American Book Award and National Book Award Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-13: 9798295790553\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Rodríguez, Rey M., Morrone, Javier H., Ramirez, Jose\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: El Martillo Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"El Martillo Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2026)","offer_id":46291917177029,"sku":"9798295790553","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9798295790553.jpg?v=1780113774"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/collections\/poetry-hispanic-latino.oembed","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}