San Antonio College Library

Eight centuries of Spanish literature, from the Cid to Rafael Alberti, not including Spanish-American writers, giving the English speaking reader an overview of the breadth of Spanish drama, poetry and prose over a time span from medieval to modern.

"Book is invaluable both for its introduction to the life and work of Burgos and as a complete bilingual edition of her poems. Agüeros knows Burgos' work intimately, and his introduction is highly informative. Translations are less then satisfying, but this volume makes all of Burgos' poems available in English for the first time"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

The present work is a summary of Spanish poetry, offered as a spontaneous tribute of affectionate admiration to the contemporaneous Spanish poet--both Peninsular and American--from his English-speaking brethren of the north. This anthology is also offered in the belief that it will greatly facilitate the work of the writer or lecturer on Spanish poetry who has been handicapped by the great difficulty in obtaining English versions adequate to illustrate...

"Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, author of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author, the Argentine master of world literature Jorge Luis Borges, as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler - albeit a dazzling one - of the master's...

Over the past decade over 350 women around the city of Juárez, Mexico, have been raped and murdered. The remains of these brutalized young women continue to be found scattered in the parched desert, vacant city lots, and roadside ditches. Others are never found. Agosín, through her words and images, invites her readers to bear witness to the reality that the grieving families of the disappeared and murdered young women face every day.