Here is a description of the book, in a HALLALI, a cultural studies journal on the Great War and the Hispanic world. It is an attempt to throw light on the life and work of Vallejo from the point of view of documents that have been hard to get or to see heretofore. It includes … More Textos rescatados de Vallejo
Δ This blog has few readers but me. It is a reason why I should merge it with my research blog, and work more on my research blog. Or spend more time organizing research notes in other platforms. Δ In any case, Mary Niall Mitchell at the University of New Orleans has this important project … More Mary Niall Mitchell, Akala, and more
Acaba de pasar el que vendrá proscrito, a sentarse en mi triple desarrollo; acaba de pasar criminalmente. Acaba de sentarse más acá, a un cuerpo de distancia de mi alma, el que vino en un asno a enflaquecerme; acaba de sentarse de pie, lívido. Acaba de darme lo que está acabado, el calor del fuego … More The one who is to come
From one Rafael Ramírez Mendoza, who seems to be really nice. “Deseos de modernidad y fronteras de lo primitivo: territorialidad y autenticidad en el debate por un nuevo imaginario peruano en Abril, Westphalen y Arguedas”. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 75 (2012): 253-82. (You can read this via academia.edu and Ebscohost.) A surrealist letter-poem you … More New and fascinating information on Moro
Here is a reasonable point of view on the value of that classic study of Vallejo: Izquierdo Ríos saw that it was important to know Vallejo’s contexts, in part so as not to substitute one’s own contexts and assumptions; and the indigenous element is real and important. He also started the vallejista tradition of making … More Francisco Izquierdo Ríos
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. [. . .] That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, … More Milton
I decided to revisit a famous text by this poet and thought: how amazingly 15th century! And it is; in fact Manrique died before 1492 and missed the entrance of the “Indies” onto the global stage. This makes him profoundly removed or foreign, I feel, because he is at the same time so close to … More Jorge Manrique
In my parents’ books I find things from very long ago. Here my father is smoking with Robert Duncan at Sutro Baths in San Francisco. Axé.
Among books I found a 1969 letter from him that reads in part: Among my exploits this year, there was just recently—presented by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese—a Poetry Festival and Conference at Austin, Texas. Sumptuously sponsored. When Octavio Paz resigned as Ambassador to India, Texas grabbed him up. Or rather, Rodolfo Cardona, the … More Robert Duncan
Gautier went on, and wrote about a voyage to Spain in 1840. He also took a series of daguerrotypes there. It appears that he went to Spain in the hottest season because he felt this would give him the most authentic Spanish experience, and he slept in the patio of the Alhambra. This portrait resembles … More Théophile Gautier
coldhearted scientist وداد 