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Esta tierra que recibió poetas y escritores como parte del proceso colonizador y además encontró espacios para la poesía oral en las culturas aborígenes y africanas, brindó un soporte inicial a lo que es hoy la República Dominicana. Por lo que se puede decir que los vientos poéticos han surcado estas tierras desde siempre. Pero en rigor literario, la poesía dominicana nace después de la independencia con la presencia formal de escritores como José Joaquín Pérez, Salomé Ureña y Gastón Fernando Deligne, para mencionar a quienes, en el siglo xix junto a otros, crearon los cimientos líricos en que se sustenta nuestra poesía. El siglo xx reafirmará este género con mayor fuerza, continuidad y madurez dentro de los géneros literarios que occidente acepta como tales. El vedrinismo y el postumismo buscarán, cada uno desde su óptica, caminos en que sustentar la estructura textual que se presenta como innovadora y de ruptura. Los sorprendidos reaccionarán contra el nacionalismo literario postumista haciendo un llamado a juntar nuestra poesía con el hombre universal. Al mismo tiempo, varios poetas independientes completaron el momento más alto de nuestra historia literaria. Cada uno fortaleciendo senderos individuales hacia la excelencia.

Un estudio apasionante del más célebre de todos los poemas épicos, de la mano de uno de los principales clasicistas de nuestros tiempos La Ilíada de Homero, el famoso poema épico ambientado en las orillas de una Troya asediada, explora la divina cólera del héroe Aquiles y cómo esta causó infinitos daños a griegos y troyanos. A pesar de haber sido compuesto hace más de 2600 años, las historias sobre pérdida y duelo, amor y venganza, bajo una vigilancia ineludible por parte del caprichoso panteón griego, siguen siendo un tema fascinante que ha trascendido al imaginario común. Sin embargo, grandes interrogantes prevalecen sobre este enigmático poema: ¿dónde, cómo y cuándo se compuso? Combinando la pericia detallada de un historiador con la sensibilidad poética de un verdadero maestro de épica, Lane Fox aborda estas cuestiones con gran erudición basándose en otros poemas heroicos compuestos en diversas partes del mundo y en las pruebas cada vez más numerosas y convincentes proporcionadas por la arqueología. En este homenaje soberbiamente escrito tras cincuenta años de lectura e investigación, Lane Fox nos ofrece un magnífico recorrido por la Ilíada, revelando porqué el poema ha perdurado durante siglos y miles de lectores aún acuden a él año tras año.

He wants revenge, but he wants her more… James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter's twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James's bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It's the perfect plan, until things in James's organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game. Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can't seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she's falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.

Architects have sought more and more to integrate residences into their settings minimally disturbing nature, with houses that float on the water or up in the trees. This book reveals 51 designs that bring their residences into nature, even allowing the natural setting to enter the very walls, with priority given to sustainability and carbon footprint. Each of the book’s homes is carefully chosen for its innovative and seductive design, approachable scale, and stunning location, whether cocooned within the earth itself or soaring high amongst the treetops, surrounded by cooling waters, or resisting the desert heat.

A forbidden obsession Unyielding family allegiance Three deadly challenges When a trip into the forest to collect a rare mushroom for her research goes horribly wrong, biologist Callie Peterson finds herself falling through a fairy portal and straight into the arms of the Unseelie Fae prince. The dangerously unhinged and viciously handsome Unseelie Fae prince. He thinks she's an assassin sent by the humans to kill him, not a scientist, and he imprisons her in his realm—where unwillingly, unwittingly, his obsession with her begins to grow. Prince Mendax has never felt anything but loathing until his eyes met hers: this vile human assassin's. He believes she's here to kill him, and yet her beauty is a parasite that has mercilessly latched onto his mind and won't let go. He itches to feel her smooth skin, even though the Unseelie royals would rather burn than touch a human. It's a dangerous desire. If he does not destroy the girl soon, she may be the only thing capable of destroying him. Mendax needs to be rid of her—but he also needs to entertain his people. And so, he challenges Callie to three deadly trials. If she survives, she gains her freedom. If she doesn't? His wrath is only just beginning.