"Escapa a la vejez, que no te alcance en la vida una tumba. Con afan y buenas ganas, y una sonrisa muy sincera, hagamos nuestra vida productiva y solucionemos los dilemas. Encontraremos la verdad que la madurez exuda, con la habilidad que resulta de afrontar todo problema. Caminemos en busca de nuevos horizontes, por la ruta que nos traza la sabiduria y la experiencia, obteniendo nuevos gozos para nuestra corta existencia. Si nos sumimos en recuerdos y si vivimos del pasado, el final de nuestros dias ha llegado, y seremos viejos y cansados y amargados, a pesar de que en optimismo todavia podamos, vivir sin llegar a ser tan viejos."

"Andrew Wood masterfully interweaves the many legends about the musician-poet Agustin Lara with solid historical facts, painstakingly documenting his rise from a hopeless romantic bordello-pianist to the world's most renowned bolero composer."--Cover, page [4].

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by George Schade. This bilingual edition of FIFTY ODES by Pablo Neruda, lovingly translated by Latin American scholar George Schade belongs in the collection of every serious poetry lover. Neruda magically transforms everyday objects, from dogs to dictionaries, into essential elements of an always amazing and surprising world. Alastair Reade, dean of Latin American poetry translators, declares, "These translations have the same fizziness, the same physical excitement that Pablo Neruda has."

Norberto Cruz is a prolific poet who writes about subjects that touch your heart and your mind. This first book is divided into two sections; in the first the poems are written in English and grouped into multiple themes. In the second, the poems are written in Spanish.