All Blog Posts Tagged 'Spanish' (19)

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Scowen has created a very exciting story from the mix of "evidence", hypothesis, and hyperbole that is the history of…

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A Matter of Pride by Linda Carlino is very funny and also at times, very sad.

In 1557 a prematurely aged, ill, and very irritable and grumpy Emperor Charles V retires to a small secluded monastery in southwest Spain.

He suffers from painful chronic gout, crippling arthritis and excruciatingly painful piles. He has to be carried around in a chair and continually washed and pampered with vinegar bandages.

Sounds like fun? It gets better!

He has lost most of his teeth and…

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Wives & Other Women, the third historical novel of Linda Carlino’s Hapsburg Trilogy, is the story of Philip II of Spain's wives and mistresses and his desperate need to provide a male heir in politically arranged marriages.

The action takes place in the second half of the 16th century, mainly in Spain, but also in England, Belgium and France.

It is set against a background of family turmoil, a court plagued by intrigue and treachery, the compulsive pursuit of other…

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 A Matter of Pride is very funny and also at times, very sad.

In 1557 a prematurely aged, ill, and very irritable and grumpy Emperor Charles V retires to a small secluded monastery in southwest Spain to relive his political and military victories - and dream about Barbara.

He suffers from painful chronic gout, crippling arthritis and excruciatingly painful piles. He has to be carried around in a chair and continually washed and pampered with vinegar bandages.

Sounds like…

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How about the story of Juana la Loca, (Joan the Mad) That Other Juana by Linda Carlino - beautifully written, compelling and unforgettable.

 

Writers, dramatists filmmakers and even historians have distorted and sensationalised the story of Juana’s life for their own ends.

She wasn’t a nymphomaniac, she didn’t murder her husband, she didn’t…

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If you're wondering what you can give a child that will make the most positive difference in his or her life, you can begin by giving a gift that will teach them diversity. Matthew Gollub has been writing children's books for years and each one teaches how life is different for each and every one of us. Some of his books have become classics and The Jazz Fly 2, The Jungle Pachanga is destined…

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This is pure pleasure!  Enjoy! Christina

 

Bring Some Diversity Into Your Child's Life

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If you're wondering what you can give a child that will make the most positive difference in his or her life, you can begin by giving a gift that will teach them diversity. Matthew Gollub has been writing children's books for years and each one teaches…

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Beauty



translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Unamuno



by John Howard Reid



Sleeping waters,

dense green grass,

golden stones,

silver sky!



There is a dense greenness in the water

and from the greenness

like giant spears of wheat

that etch their gold

against the sky’s silver

four tiers arise:

the river

the trees

the tower

and the sky upon which it rests.



And yet all descend upon the… Continue

Rome in Her Ruins



translated from the Spanish of Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas by Felicia D. Hemans









Amidst these scenes, O Pilgrim, seek’st thou Rome?

Vain is thy search—the pomp of Rome is fled;

Her silent Aventine is glory’s tomb;

Her walls, her shrines, but relics of the dead.





That hill, where Caesars dwelt in other days,

Forsaken mourns, where once it towered sublime;

Each mouldering medal now far less… Continue

Keeping up to schedule, Poem 47 in "A Salute to Spanish Poetry: 100 Masterpieces from Spain & Latin America rendered into English verse by John Howard Reid" was written by the celebrated Spanish poet, Antonio Machado (1875-1939)…. 21 such poems are included in the Tom Howard anthology, "Escape to Paradise and Other Poetic Fancies."



Sailboat on the Shore



translated from the Spanish of Antonio Machado







Battered by waves,

overgrown by green… Continue

HOME FROM THE FIELDS



translated from the Spanish of Julio Herrera y Reissig







Evening pays the field laborers in divine gold…



Women, neatly dressed in percales

[shifts made from cloth of very low quality],

finally emerge from their houses

and sit on their doorsteps to do needlework,

or to plait lilies and lime-springs into their hair.



Nailed boots and walking sticks and shawls…



Two girls with water jars… Continue

Separation



translated from the Spanish of Manuel de Navarrete







After the black veil of night

spread itself all over the far-flung forest,

all the glorious flowers on that once-happy ground

now seem clothed in mourning.



At first the birds are silent. They stand still,

waiting for the darkness to pass.

When they realize night has come,

they speed home to their welcome nests.



Now silence reigns supreme in the… Continue

Keeping up to schedule, Poem 33 for my proposed "A Salute to Spanish Poetry: 100 Masterpieces from Spain & Latin America" was written by the celebrated Peruvian poet, Manuel Gonzalez Prada.. 21 such poems are included in the Tom Howard anthology, "Escape to Paradise and Other Poetic Fancies."



Mr Cosmopolitan



translated from the Spanish of Manuel González Prada







How it wearies… Continue

Party Time



translated from the Spanish of Julio Herrera y Reissig







Supper is over – vegetables, brown bread

and grapes still resplendent with virgin dew.



Supper has been supped, prayers have been prayed,

the old man has finished an amenable anecdote,

and the group puts on their party clothes

with goatish pleasure.



Lydia runs in circles around the room.

Lux sings. Palemon walks on stilts.

Everyone is… Continue

I recently published "Escape to Paradise and Other Poetic Fancies", This book was issued under my "Tom Howard" pseudonym because this is was the name under which many of the poems in this anthology were published many years ago. (I had to use a pen-name because I was in the army at the time). Mostly in order to fill the book out to a respectable 148 pages, I included 21 translations of Spanish masters such as Miguel de Unamuno and Rosalia Castro. Well, would you believe, the translations have… Continue