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“And we were all alive” by Olvido García Valdés “With its diversity of formats, where the brief and fragmentary coexist with the long, verse with prose, with its verbal asceticism and its unusual transitions, with its pretended air of unfinished pieces — saturated, in reality, with meaning—, the compositions of Y todos somos vivo are
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“Complete Works” by Ángela Figuera Aymerich “Together with Blas de Otero and Gabriel Celaya, Ángela Figuera is part of the important ´vaso triumvirate´ of post-war poetry, but in her work a clear feminine approach to social problems can be appreciated. The axis of her poetry is in the role of motherhood and
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“Bridges that do not end: poems” by José Moreno Villa “1933: He publishes Bridges that do not end, one of his most beautiful collections of poems, in the printing house of his dear friends Concha Méndez and Manuel Altolaguirre. Beautiful book in terms of typography and content.” Extracted from The Residence. See also: http://www.residencia.csic.es/bol/num6/ayala.htm http://www.residencia.csic.es/bol/num6/valender.htm http://books.google.es /books?id=uwCQxXkTaiEC&lpg=PA59&ots=fEcn5NY_kV&dq=%22Puentes%20que%20no%20acaban%22&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q=%22Puentes%20que%20no%20acaban%22&f=false http://es.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Moreno_Villa The selected titles
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“The strange islands: an anthology of poetry in the Spanish language (1950-2000)” “Following the example of the historic anthology of poetry Laurel (1941), which had Octavio Paz among its promoters, Las insulas strangers is now published, in the that the greatest poets of Spain and Latin America born between 1910 and 1959 are represented. The only