Nichts ist gewiss. "Sieben und sieben: Die Liebe in Zeiten des Covid" sind sieben und sieben Gedichte. Was mit einer Ode an die Liebe beginnt, endet mit Versen voller Schmerz. Gefangen im Traum von der ewigen Liebe, halten wir an einer Illusion fest, die das Ende einer Liebesbeziehung völlig ausblendet. Doch Liebe und Leid bilden eine Einheit, so wie das Leben und der Tod. Der Weggang des geliebten Menschen verletzt und hinterlässt Narben, die uns zeichnen. Aber sie zeigen uns, dass wir leben, und die Trauer lässt Worte erblühen, die tief berühren. Oscar David Matallana Uribe, El Matallana, erzählt von der Launenhaftigkeit des Lebens, mit seiner Wahrheit, seiner Schönheit und seinen Enttäuschungen. Er hält Augenblicke der Liebe fest, ergreifend und poetisch. Die Gedichte sind in Spanisch, Englisch und Deutsch abgefasst. Nothing is certain. "Seven and Seven: Love in the time of Covid" are seven and seven poems. Something that started as an ode to love finishes with verses full of pain. Trapped in dreams of eternal love, we keep an illusion that shields us from seeing the end of our romantic relationships. However, love and pain form a unity, like life and death. We are hurt by the people we love, and we bear their scars, scars which shape us. But those scars show us that we live, and the grief allows words to bloom that deeply touch us. Oscar David Matallana Uribe, El Matallana, tells us about the capriciousness of life, with all its truth, beauty and disappointments. He shows us a perspective of love that is both moving and poetic. The poems are written in Spanish, English and German. Nada es cierto. "Siete y Siete: El amor en los tiempos del Covid" son siete y siete poemas. Algo que comenzó como una oda al amor termina con versos llenos de dolor. Atrapados en un sueño del amor eterno, mantenemos una ilusión que no nos deja ver el final de nuestras relaciones amorosas. Sin embargo, el amor y el dolor forman una unidad, como la vida y la muerte. El paso de las personas que amamos nos hiere y deja cicatrices que nos dan forma. Pero esas cicatrices nos muestran que vivimos y el duelo deja florecer palabras que nos mueven profundamente. Oscar David Matallana Uribe, El Matallana, nos cuenta sobre una vida caprichosa, con toda su verdad, belleza y decepciones. Nos muestra una perspectiva del amor que es conmovedora y poética. Los poemas están escritos en español, inglés y alemán.

This innovative study considers how approximately seven thousand male graduates of law came to understand themselves as having a legitimate claim to authority over nineteenth-century Brazilian society during their transition from boyhood to manhood. While pursuing their traditional studies at Brazil's two law schools, the students devoted much of their energies to theater and literature in an effort to improve their powers of public speaking and written persuasion. These newly minted lawyers quickly became the magistrates, bureaucrats, local and national politicians, diplomats, and cabinet members who would rule Brazil until the fall of the monarchy in 1889. Andrew J. Kirkendall examines the meaning of liberalism for a slave society, the tension between systems of patriarchy and patronage, and the link between language and power in a largely illiterate society. In the interplay between identity and state formation, he explores the processes of socialization that helped Brazil achieve a greater measure of political stability than any other Latin American country.

Translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño released Poemas de Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. Both of her own merit and as part of the Uruguayan writers group the Generation of ’45—which included Onetti, Mario Benedetti, Amanda Berenguer, and Ida Vitale—Vilariño is an essential South American poet, and part of a long tradition of Uruguayan women poets. Vilariño and Onetti’s love affair is one of the most famous in South American literature. Poemas de Amor is an intense book, full of poems about sexuality and what it means to be a woman, and stands as a testament to both the necessity and the impossibility of love. This translation brings these highly personal poems to English speaking audiences for the first time side-by-side with the original Spanish language versions.

Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!" Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.

El amor es más que un sentimiento, el amor es la causa y el efecto, y es por lo tanto la esencia de la vida. "El amor genuino no lastima y es un hermoso sentimiento por medio del cual podemos motivarnos a alcanzar nuestras metas"