Kevin Power

Una poética activa es un ensayo ya clásico y sin duda imprescindible para valorar la poesía estadounidense del siglo XX. Más que un canon o un catálogo de autores, lo que hay en este libro es el resultado de una larga meditacion en torno a la poesia y la vida. Desde Ezra Pound y William Carlos Williams a los Language poets, pasando por Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley y Allen Ginsberg, entre otros, los poetas norteamericanos han construido una tradicion compleja, que Power analiza con rigor y expone con claridad.

Una calurosa noche de verano, una estúpida pelea a las puertas de una discoteca de Dublin termina con un joven muerto a patadas. Las reverberaciones de ese acontecimiento, su génesis y sus consecuencias, son el tema de esta extraordinaria novela, que desenmascara las costumbres sociales y sexuales de una sociedad que es un espejo de nuestra epoca. La victima, sus asesinos y sus jueces provienen todos de las clases privilegiadas de los suburbios de la ciudad. Cuando esas vidas se entrelazan, unidas por la tragedia, la exposicion publica se mezcla con la angustia privada en una implosion que marcara, para siempre, el futuro de todos.Comparado con John Banville y Truman Capote, este debut de Kevin Power se enfrenta a lo inaceptable y a la naturaleza de la verdad, iluminando los rincones mas oscuros de la sociedad."Una novela excelente que rompe las reglas". John Boyne en Irish Times.Mejor libro de ficcion de 2008 de Read Irlanda Book Reviews.Nominado a mejor primera novela irlandesa para los Irish Book Award

Balada en tres tiempos se editó con motivo del recital ofrecido por sus autores en la casa molino Ángel Ganivet.

Hay un argumento latinoamericano que dice que el circo de la Modernidad todavía no ha incluido la periferira en su debate. Si es así, la presente recopilación de textos críticos específicamente latinoamericanos, escritos a partir de los años noventa, contribuira, en una pequeña parte, a este campo de expansion. Dicho argumento, sin embargo, tiene poco sentido para quienes pensamos que, a lo largo de estas dos decadas, el cuerpo de ensayos criticos procedente de Latinoamerica ha constituido la relectura mas importante, tanto de la modernidad como de la posmodernidad, articuladas estas por el pensamiento europeo y norteamericano.

From the highly acclaimed author of Bad Day in Blackrock - inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson... Shortlisted for the 2021 An Post Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year... A darkly funny, gripping and profoundly moving novel about a life spinning out of control, a life live without the bedrock of familial love, and the corruption of material wealth that tears at the soul.'It was my father's arrest that brought me here, although you could certainly say that I took the scenic route.' Here is rehab, where Ben - the only son of a rich South Dublin banker - is piecing together the shattered remains of his life. Abruptly cut off, at the age of 27, from a life of heedless privilege, Ben flounders through a world of drugs and dead-end jobs, his self-esteem at rock bottom. Even his once-adoring girlfriend, Clio, is at the end of her tether.Then Ben runs into an old school friend who wants to cut him in on a scam: a shady property deal in the Balkans. The deal will make Ben rich and, at one fell swoop, will deliver him from all his troubles: his addictions, his father's very public disgrace, and his own self-loathing and regret. Problems solved.But something is amiss. For one thing, the Serbian partners don't exactly look like fools. (In fact they look like gangsters.) And, for another, Ben is being followed everywhere he goes.

From the highly acclaimed author of Bad Day in Blackrock inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson... ?Shortlisted for the 2021 An Post Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year...A darkly funny, gripping and profoundly moving novel about a life spinning out of control, a life live without the bedrock of familial love, and the corruption of material wealth that tears at the soul.It was my fathers arrest that brought me here, although you could certainly say that I took the scenic route. Here is rehab, where Ben the only son of a rich South Dublin banker is piecing together the shattered remains of his life. Abruptly cut off, at the age of 27, from a life of heedless privilege, Ben flounders through a world of drugs and dead-end jobs, his self-esteem at rock bottom. Even his once-adoring girlfriend, Clio, is at the end of her tether. Then Ben runs into an old school friend who wants to cut him in on a scam: a shady property deal in the Balkans. The deal will make Ben rich and, at one fell swoop, will deliver him from all his troubles: his addictions, his fathers very public disgrace, and his own self-loathing and regret. Problems solved. But something is amiss. For one thing, the Serbian partners dont exactly look like fools. (In fact they look like gangsters.) And, for another, Ben is being followed everywhere he goes. Someone is being taken for a ride. But who?Praise for White City:I cant recommend it enough John BoyneImmensely enjoyable and tautly written Sunday TimesSpiky, blackly funny IndependentBoth riotous rant and thoughtful coming-of-age tale Dublin Review of BooksBrilliantly entertaining Literary ReviewLikely to be the most solid, well-rounded novel to come out of Ireland this year Irish IndependentThis ambitious, attention-grabbing novel seems ripe for cinematic adaptation Daily Mail Demands to be read Irish TimesPower shows his own capacity for comic timing and pithy aperçusGuardian One of the most purely enjoyable booksPeter Murphy, Arena (RTE Radio 1) A tremendously zesty and zeitgeisty piece of writingSunday Times (Ireland) Fast-paced and wickedly funny Danielle McLaughlinMagnificentBilly OCallaghanDark, hilarious and emotionally profoundEd OLoughlin [A] biting page-turnerBusiness PostFunny, and gorgeously written, and just relentlessly entertaining Mark OConnellYoull laugh, youll cry... Read it, read it, read itClaire HennessyProfound, unpretentious, unapologetically intelligent, and really hilarious Lauren OylerBrilliantEoin McNamee

**Inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did from the author of White City, available for pre-order now**An excellent novel... It comes from the gut, its raw, its passionate John Boyne, author of The Boy in Striped Pyjamas On a late August night a young man is kicked to death outside a Dublin nightclub and celebration turns to devastation. The reverberations of that event, its genesis and aftermath, are the subject of this extraordinary story, stripping away the veneer of a generation of Celtic cubs, whose social and sexual mores are chronicled and dissected in this tract for our times. The victim, Conor Harris, his killers - three of them are charged with manslaughter - and the trial judge share common childhoods and schooling in the privileged echelons of south Dublin suburbia. The intertwining of these lives leaves their afflicted families in moral free fall as public exposure merges with private anguish and imploded futures.Praise for Kevin Power:Kevin Power is an author of magnificent control, stirring the deepest compassion with restless anger in this piercing contemporary novel Frank McGuinnessThis novel marks the debut of a deeply moral and probing writer - and a potentially great one Sunday Post (Ireland)White City is a dark, hilarious and emotionally profound study of the toxic effects of greed and entitlement. Also, a story brilliantly and movingly told. Couldnt stop reading it. Will read it againEd OLoughlin, author of Not Untrue and Not Unkind and This EdenThis is part thriller but mostly a look at what it means to grow up... full of ridiculously beautiful, polished, & often scathing sentences. This novel is pleasing on so many levels, both intellectually & emotionally... Youll laugh, youll cry... Read it, read it, read itClaire Hennessy, author, editor & publisher at Banshee Press

Una calurosa noche de verano, una estúpida pelea a las puertas de una discoteca de Dublin termina con un joven muerto a patadas. Las reverberaciones de ese acontecimiento, su génesis y sus consecuencias, son el tema de esta extraordinaria novela, que desenmascara las costumbres sociales y sexuales de una sociedad que es un espejo de nuestra epoca. La victima, sus asesinos y sus jueces provienen todos de las clases privilegiadas de los suburbios de la ciudad. Cuando esas vidas se entrelazan, unidas por la tragedia, la exposicion publica se mezcla con la angustia privada en una implosion que marcara, para siempre, el futuro de todos.Comparado con John Banville y Truman Capote, este debut de Kevin Power se enfrenta a lo inaceptable y a la naturaleza de la verdad, iluminando los rincones mas oscuros de la sociedad."Una novela excelente que rompe las reglas". John Boyne en Irish Times.Mejor libro de ficcion de 2008 de Read Irlanda Book Reviews.Nominado a mejor primera novela irlandesa para los Irish Book Awards.