Todos Los Amores/Love Through the Ages

by Carmen Boullosa (Editor)

An anthology of poems that will take readers from ancient Egypt to modern times. This book compiles love poems from all over the world and from Shakespeare to Quevedo, from Dario to Cummings. Readers will enjoy the variety of the poems' contents, eras, and geographical settings.

Genres: Poetry

158 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

Carmen Boullosa (b. September 4, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work is eclectic and difficult to categorize, but it generally focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. Her work has been praised by a number of prominent writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Alma Guillermoprieto and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as Publishers Weekly. She has won a number of awards for her works, and has taught at universities such as Georgetown University, Columbia University and New York University (NYU), as well as at universities in nearly a dozen other countries. She is currently Distinguished Lecturer at the City College of New York. She has two children -- Maria Aura and Juan Aura -- with her former partner, Alejandro Aura --and is now married to Mike Wallace, the Pulitzer Prize–winning co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Yaqueli Samayoa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cada libro es una experiencia, me emociona leer poesía, me llena de ilusión y de sentimientos de satisfacción.

[Axel Zuñiga · Rating 4 out of 5]

No soy mucho de poemas pero leí este libro y me hizo apreciarlos. Me gusto

[María Paulina · Rating 3 out of 5]

No soy tanto de poesía pero me gustaron la mayoría de los poemas.