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El presente volumen de Nicanor Parra es la primera antología completa, y en edición de lujo, de los ecopoemas del gran poeta chileno, creador de la antipoesía y Premio Cervantes 2011. Por ecopoemas se entienden todas aquellas composiciones del autor dedicadas a la temática ecológica y la conservación del planeta, causa de la que fue militante pionero desde mediados del pasado siglo. El volumen reúne creaciones procedentes de títulos tan fundamentales como Poemas y antipoemas (1954), Ecopoemas (1982) o Poesía política (1983), y a la vez reproduce a gran formato los artefactos visuales del autor, tan geniales e incisivos como los poemas visuales de Joan Brossa. La antología y los comentarios corren a cargo de Niall Binns, profesor de literatura hispanoamericana de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y especialista en la vida y la obra de Parra. This Nicanor Parra volume is the first complete anthology, and in a deluxe edition, of the ecopoems of the great Chilean poet, creator of anti-poetry and winner of the 2011 Cervantes Prize. By ecopoems we understand all those compositions of the author dedicated to ecological issues and the conservation of the planet, a cause of which he was a pioneering activist since the middle of last century. The volume brings together creations from such fundamental titles as Poems and Antipoems (1954), Ecopoems (1982) or Political Poetry (1983), and at the same time reproduces in large format the author's visual artifacts, as brilliant and incisive as Joan Brossa's visual poems. This anthology and its commentaries are done by Niall Binns, professor of Hispano-American literature at the Complutense University of Madrid and a specialist in the life and work of Parra.

En tiempos convulsos, cuando lo viejo aún no ha desaparecido y lo nuevo no termina de llegar, Pepe Moll de Alba nos invita a la reflexión con una mirada reveladora en la que su obra pictórica, delicada e irónica, se une a un provocador texto poético. En su trabajo se percibe la influencia de la luz -y de sus sombras- y de los lugares en los que ha vivido: desde la claridad de su Barcelona natal y la que baña las Islas Canarias, donde pasó una infancia marcada por el contacto con la naturaleza, hasta la penumbra de Alemania, país en el que se formó como artista, y la luminosidad dorada de Italia, lugar en el que adquirió madurez como pintor. Es en ese contraste y en esa tensión por donde transita, como si de manera natural hubiera fusionado el Renacimiento toscano con la Bauhaus, conectando por medio de puentes invisibles con sus raíces atlánticas y mediterráneas. Todo lo que crea Pepe Moll de Alba es elegante y sensual, pero es en su honestidad y su audacia donde radica su modernidad. Romper viejos hábitos consigue hacer de un manifiesto autobiográfico un tema universal que nos convida a profundizar en nosotros mismos, haciendo propio un relato que adquiere más sentido que nunca en el momento actual. In turbulent times, when the old has not yet disappeared and the new has not yet arrived, Pepe Moll de Alba invites us to reflect with a revealing gaze in which his pictorial work, delicate and ironic, joins a provocative poetic text. In his work we can perceive the influence of light -and its shadows- and the places where he has lived: from the clarity of his native Barcelona and the one that bathes the Canary Islands, where he spent a childhood marked by contact with nature. From the gloominess of Germany, the country where he was trained as an artist to the golden luminosity of Italy, the place where he acquired maturity as a painter. It is in this contrast and tension that he walks, as if he had naturally merged the Tuscan Renaissance with the Bauhaus, connecting by means of invisible bridges with his Atlantic and Mediterranean roots. Everything Pepe Moll de Alba creates is elegant and sensual, but it is in his honesty and audacity that his modernity lies. Romper viejos hábitos manages to make an autobiographical manifesto a universal theme that invites us to go deeper into ourselves, making a story that makes more sense than ever in the present moment.

In his work we can perceive the influence of light--and its shadows--and the places where he has lived: from the clarity of his native Barcelona and the one that bathes the Canary Islands, where he spent a childhood marked by contact with nature. From the gloominess of Germany, the country where he was trained as an artist, to the golden luminosity of Italy, the place where he acquired maturity as a painter. It is in this contrast and tension that he walks, as if he had naturally merged the Tuscan Renaissance with the Bauhaus, connecting by means of invisible bridges with his Atlantic and Mediterranean roots. Everything Pepe Moll de Alba creates is elegant and sensual, but it is in his honesty and audacity that his modernity lies. Break Old Habits manages to make an autobiographical manifesto a universal theme that invites us to go deeper into ourselves, making a story that makes more sense than ever in the present moment.