J. G. Cobo Borda

Luis Fernando García Núñez

Repertorio crítico sobre Gabriel García Márquez

para qué poetas en tiempos de desgracia? : memorias del Encuentro de Poetas Colombianos, Ulibro, Bucaramanga, marzo de 2003

Poesía i-realidad

Claudia Uribe Touri

Cecilia Mejía Hernández

Unlike architecture, sculpture or painting, the art of gardening produces living works that grow, blossom, change, and fade. As such, the garden could be considered the supreme work of art, and indeed it has been so in all civilizations. A garden on any scale enhances the architecture it surrounds. What would Versailles have been without its spectacular gardens and their orderly vistas, or the great country houses in England without the eighteenth-century landscape designers? Likewise it is hard to imagine rural or urban houses in Colombia without their planned patios and courtyards. The jagged geography of Colombia divides it into several contrasting regions: the Caribbean coast, Antioquia, Santander, Cundinamarca and Boyaca, the Cauca valley, and the plains of the "Llanos," to mention a few. The climates and flora of these areas are markedly different, but their inhabitants share in common love for plants and a keen interest in gardening. Long before there were professional gardeners and landscape designers, all Colombians, from the wealthy "hacendados" to the modest "campesinos," devised and planted their own gardens, according to personal taste and economic limitations. A delightful eclecticism is captured in these pages in hundreds of photographs of every type of garden from extravagant parks to minute flowered niches. Experimentation is commonplace; each journey and Sunday excursion brings home additional plants. With the added factor of unpredictable rainfalls and prolonged droughts, most Colombian gardens are aesthetic and horticultural laboratories. In the course of compiling the photographic material for this book, it proved impossible to include all gardens worthyof presentation, nor could all the gardens featured here be photographed at the peak of their splendor. Nevertheless, the attentive reader will be able to enjoy an impressive range of plants, color, composition and integration of cultivation with the natural landscape, which, in the absence of a great classical tradition, make up the particular charm of the Colombian garden.

Gardens of Colombia

Desocupado lector

"Este volumen recoge, corrige y amplía ensayos precedentes, pero también añade trabajos que se ocupan del quehacer poético colombiano de principios de los años noventa. Sin duda, una de las miradas críticas más estimulantes a un panorama rico y lleno de contrastes. Cobo Borda combina su conocimiento personal de muchos de los poetas estudiados con útiles remisiones bibliográficas. De destacar son las secciones dedicadas al nadaísmo y a las promociones que lo siguen"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Historia portátil de la poesía colombiana

El Premio Juan Rulfo es uno de los galardones m s importantes de la lengua espa ola. Esta edici n conmemorativa, a cargo del poeta y cr tico colombiano Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda, re ne una muestra de los m s representativo de las obras, as como los discursos de recepci n de los escritores que han merecido este premio: Nicanor Parra, Juan Jos Arreola, Eliseo Diego, Julio Ram n Ribeyro, N lida Pi on, Augusto Monterroso, Juan Mars , Olga Orozco, Sergio Pitol, Juan Gelman, Juan Garc a Ponce y Cintio Vitier.

antología

Premio Juan Rulfo, una década

Poemas orientales y bogotanos

J. G. Cobo Borda

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