The War Trumpet (Toronto Iberic)
The epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth accrued through maritime exploration. Iberian poets of the period were quite cognizant of their ventures into uncharted territory, and that awareness informed t...
Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World (Bellis Azorica)
by Pedro da Silveira
Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Born on the island of Flores, between Europe and the United States, Pedro da Silveira captures the islander's longing for migratory movement, leading to departure and an inevitable return. These fresh and original poems, now available in this masterful translation, express a deep connection to place, particularly, the insular world of the midAtlantic islands of the Azores. In Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World, we find...
Viriato Trágico - Volume III
by Jose Barbosa Machado and Bras Garcia Mascarenhas
This is an epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time. A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Gongora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness". "The Solitudes", his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who has been spurned by his lover. Wrenched from ci...
Era inevitable es el nuevo libro de Mario de las Sagras, más conocido como @soloeme,el poeta que ha conquistado a cientos de miles de personas con sus mensajes y su lenguaje fresco y directo en TikTok. Resulta que el mundo eras tú, lo demás solo decorado. Ir contracorriente es un modo de vida; sentirte distinto al resto, una parte necesaria de la juventud; y darte cuenta de que eres ese tipo al que en otros momentos tanto criticaste, un capítulo obligatorio para hacerse adulto. Era inevi...