A reference guide to the vast array of art song literature and composers from Latin America, this book introduces the music of Latin America from a singer's perspective and provides a basis for research into the songs of this richly musical area of the world. The book is divided by country into 22 chapters, with each chapter containing an introductory essay on the music of the region, a catalog of art songs for that country, and a list of publishers. Some chapters include information on additional sources. Singers and teachers may use descriptive annotations (language, poet) or pedagogical annotations (range, tessitura) to determine which pieces are appropriate for their voices or programming needs, or those of their students. The guide will be a valuable resource for vocalists and researchers, however familiar they may be with this glorious repertoire.

"Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939- ) is Mexico's foremost living poet, and a major figure in contemporary Latin American poetry. Jose Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows examines the dynamic of literary influence and the question of literary origins in Pacheco's first six books of poetry (1960s to mid-1980s). Ronald J. Friis appropriates Bloom's theory of poetic influence to investigate how Pacheco deploys literary allusions and intertextual references as a means of decentering the traditional centrality of the figure of the author. The poets of the shadows to which the title refers include Pacheco's precursors from prior generations of Mexican and Latin American literature, particularly Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, and Octavio Paz."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"Los Tres Amigos," primer libro de poesia mistica de Antonio Lobo; cuando se acababa el siglo XX y comenzaba el siglo XXI, epoca de profundas transformaciones y crisis a nivel mundial y el ser humano seguia preguntandose: Que somos?; Adonde vamos?; Que camino seguir?. Entonces este poeta en comunion con su ser interior, nos brinda una filosofia que aunque puede parecer apocaliptica, esta llena de amor incondicional, de sabiduria, de paciencia, de alegria, fe, perseverancia y al vez inocencia.Haciendonos saber que a todo fin sigue un comienzo y que todo tiempo futuro tiene que ser mejor.Poemas para disfrutar y pensar, para leerlos una y otra vez de tal forma que la vida se llene de Luz y sobretodo de esa magia que se llama AMOR. " The three Friends" is the first book of mystic poetry by Antonio Lobo; the poems were originally written half in Spanish, half in English. At the end of the XX century and the beginning of the XXI century. A time of change and crisis in the whole world and humanity was still asking: Who are we?, Where we go?, Which path should be follow?.Then this poet in communion with his inner most being offer his philosophy, even if it sometimes sounds apocalyptic, it is full of unconditional love, wisdom, patience, happiness, faith, perseverance and innocence. He is teaching us that for every ending follows a beginning and that any future time must be better. These are poems to enjoy and to think about, to be read over and over again in such a way that Life becomes full of Light and specially of the magic which is called LOVE.

In the world of Chilean poet Ariel Dorfman, men and women can be forced to choose between leaving their country or dying for it. The living risk losing everything, but what they hold onto—love, faith, hope, truth—might change the world. It is this subversive possibility that speaks through these poems. A succession of voices—exiles, activists, separated lovers, the families of those victimized by political violence—gives an account of ruptured safety. They bear witness to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of personal and social damage in the aftermath of terror. The first bilingual edition of Dorfman’s work, In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land includes ten new poems and a new preface, and brings back into print the classic poems of the celebrated Last Waltz in Santiago. Always an eloquent voice against the ravages of inhumanity, Dorfman’s poems, like his acclaimed novels, continue to be a searing testimony of hope in the midst of despair.

In its totality, the “Long Second World War”—extending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in 1945—has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans’ individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped the continent’s cultural heritage. Focusing on the major combatant nations—Spain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia—it offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to illuminate European public memory.

A study of the prints of Robert Motherwell, covering the years 1943 to 1991. This fourth edition is based on research and scholarship. In addition to cataloguing more than 500 prints in virtually every medium, it includes an essay on Motherwell's print-making, an illustrated chronology, concordance, bibliography and exhibition history. 500 colour & 100 b/w illustrations