"A fascinating picture book biography of Benito Juárez, president of Mexico during its tumultuous time of Liberal Reform"--

Beginning in 1965, Nicolae Ceausescu came to power and established a neo-Stalinist police-state. He denied the existence of AIDS in Romania, and thus no HIV/AIDS treatment or prevention education was provided. Ceausescu's government eventually fell in 1989, but by then the damage had already been done, resulting in one of the largest pediatric AIDS epidemics in the world. AFTER THE FALL: HIV GROWS UP is an intimate portrait of a group of Romanian...

The work of this "eminent, still-wild spirit of Central Europe" (Publishers Weekly) continues to electrify. In The Blue Tower, language is remade with tenderness and abandon: "Rommel was kissing heaven's dainty hands and yet / from his airplane above the Sahara my uncle / Rafko Perhauc still blew him to bits." There is an effervescence and a sense of freedom to Tomaž Salamun's poetry that has made him an inspiration to successive generations of American...

Three classic plays exploring the absurdity of death and modern complacency by the 20th century master of French avant-garde theatre. Exit the King presents a ritualized death rite unfolding the final hours of the once-great king Berenger the First. As he dies, so does his kingdom. His armies suffer defeat, the young emigrate, and his kingdom's borders shrink to the outline of his throne. The Killer is a study of pure evil. B'renger, a conscientious...

Edvard Kocbek was born in 1904, the son of a church organist, in a part of present-day Slovenia that was then in Austria-Hungary. Following the publication in 1934 of his first book of poetry, he published essays that presaged the wartime alliance of this Christian Socialist with the Tito-led partisan resistance. Despite a lengthy postwar publication ban, Kocbek went on to win the Preseren Prize, Slovenia's highest literary award, in 1964. More books...

En las Canciones de Garcilaso de la Vega relata, como si de un breve cancionero se tratara, el proceso amoroso, en general, doloroso y desgarrador. Este amor predestinado, provoca en el amante melancolía y dolor por no poder gozar del objeto amado. A continuación comentamos muy brevemente el contenido de cada canción. -Canción I. A flor de Gnido. Lamenta la esquivez de la dama. El poeta muestra una actitud de sumisión ante el dominio de una...

El poema A la entrada del príncipe de Gales en Madrid por marzo del año 1623, de Antonio de Solís, es una loa a la visita del Príncipe de Gales a España en 1623. El viaje tuvo como propósito establecer una alianza mediante un matrimonio con la hija menor de Felipe III, la infanta María Ana. El enlace nunca se celebró. La corona española exigía la conversión del príncipe de Gales al catolicismo. A su regreso a Inglaterra, Carlos exigió...

Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page); its companion volume of commentary is a masterpiece of erudition, offering a wide range of information on such subjects as...

Dive into the compelling world of Arrive Dead at the Same Place, a poignant poetry collection by Ken Eaton-Dykes. This anthology bridges the ordinary and the extraordinary, capturing life's diverse tapestry with wit, wisdom, and a touch of cynicism. Eaton-Dykes' poetry traverses a vast emotional landscape, from reflective musings on war and its indelible impact on society to the humorous absurdities of daily existence. Written in an array of styles,...

Los Poemas de Baltasar de Alcázar no fueron publicados por el escritor. Por fortuna, el pintor Francisco Pacheco realizó copias del único manuscrito que se conservaba. Como escritor, demostró un brillante dominio de la métrica. Los temas que caracterizan la obra poética de Alcázar fueron un tanto triviales; por esta razón, a menudo se le etiqueta injustamente al autor como "poeta menor". Estuvo muy influido por los poetas latinos Marcial y...