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Spanish Literature: Bilingual Editions

Another America/Otra America (poetry)
Barbara Kingsolver
A deeply moving book of poetry that gives voice to themes ranging from resistance to violence to finding one's inner courage and strength as a woman. Kingsolver's poetry rings with a richness of language and spirit, eloquently expressing her insights and compassion as one of this century's most admired writers.
$15.95  

Extravagaria
Pablo Neruda
One of Pablo Neruda's own favorites among his books, Extravagaria marks an important stage in the progress of his poetry. It was written at the point in his life when he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. These writings celebrate this coming to rest, this rediscovery of the sea and the land, for in Extravagaria Neruda evolved a lyric poetry that is decidedly more personal than his earlier work. Written in what he called his "autumnal" period, the sixty-eight poems range from the wistful to the exultant, combining psalm and speculation, meditation and humorous aside.
$18.95  

Twenty Love Poems: And A Song Of Despair
Pablo Neruda
First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet's most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the genius of a master poet. This edition features the newly corrected original Spanish text, with masterly English translations by award-winning poet W. S. Merwin on facing pages.
$18.95  

The Book of Questions
Pablo Neruda
While Neruda craved the clarity rendered by an examined life, he refused to be corralled by the rational mind. These brief poems are composed entirely of 316 unanswerable questions, and integrate the wonder of a child with the experiences of an adult. This new edition has a new, attractive format and an updated introduction by translator William O'Daly.
$12.95  

Stones of the Sky
Pablo Neruda
This suite is Neruda's last love song to the Earth. As the title suggests, the "man of decay" (Neruda is dying of cancer) addresses not ordinary stones, but cosmic ones: stones that reconcile immobile permanence and the clarity of spiritual flight. When the poet meets his crystallized self, the encounter "takes on an eerie brilliance" (The Village Voice). Bilingual with introduction.
$12.95  

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the U.S.
Lori M. Carlson, ed.
Thirty-six poets (including Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Luis Rodríguez, Martín Espada and Gary Soto) reveal their experience of growing up Latino in the U.S. A 1994 Américas Award commended title (from the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs)
$7.95  

Nostalgia for Death/Hieroglyphs of Desire
Octavio Paz / Xavier Villaurrutia
A unique combination of poetry and critical study, which the Los Angles Times called "One of the most important collections in recent memory." Nostalgia for Death is the sole book of Xavier Villaurrutia, who was one of the few openly homosexual Latin American writers and one of Mexico's most important authors of the early twentieth century, and is translated by Eliot Weinberger with the Spanish text en face. Hieroglyphs of Desire is a book-length study of Villaurrutia by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz. "The poetry of Villaurrutia," Paz writes, "seems to have been written not only in some other country, but in a place beyond geography and history."
$12.95  

Y no se lo trago la tierra (And the Earth Did Not Devour Him)
Tomas Rivera
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. Winner of the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and the standard literary text for Hispanic literature classes throughout the country, it is now an award-winning motion picture entitled And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him.
$26.95  

Bilingual Series - facing page format (for beginner and intermediate learners)
These beautiful softcover or hardcover bilingual books, tell entertaining stories that are illustrated by talented artists. Learning in context is an effective way to improve your (or your child's) Spanish. This series makes that possible with the English words close by if you need them. The following titles are available: Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes/Los perros magicos de Los Volcanes, The Adventures of Connie and Diego/Las Aventuras de Connie y Diego, The Invisible Hunters/Los cazadores Invisibles, Angel’s Kite/La estrella de Angel, Atariba and Niguayona/Atariba y Niguayona, and Friends from the other side/Amigos del otro lado.
Paperback editions
$7.95       
Hardcover editions
$14.95