Antología inventada

Decía Stéphane Mallarmé que hubo alfabeto e inmediatamente después aparecieron los versos. ¿Y la prosa? Según Mallarmé “no hay prosa”, afirmación alarmante ante la realidad tipográfica de tantos libros. Digamos que la prosa quedó sembrada en una comarca fronteriza, en un limbo de ávidas pulsiones; tan insaciables, que desataron, al paso de los siglos, a las criaturas multiformes y locuaces que llamamos novelas. Los cuentos siempre estuvieron allí, es decir: en la mente de la tribu, en la otra avidez, la de los niños y los ancianos que dicen siempre “cuéntamelo otra vez”. ...

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence--published in a bilingual format--written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas. Thunderweavers is a story of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It deals with the...

"RENOVATIO" is the 3rd collection of Bonafide Rojas & the 2nd publication from Grand Concourse Press. This collection of poems deal with the beauty of reinvention in life & in art, coming of age, dealing with death, fatherhood, the impermanence of our mortality, the realization of interconnectivity & the quiet beauty of solitude. "It's difficult to explain what Rojas has done in RENOVATIO. Like pulling a rabbit from a hat, it seems impossible to yank words from the stronghold of self like he has. But unlike pulling a rabbit from a hat, this is not an illusion. This is not a trick. Rojas...

Sabino Correa León, autor octagerario de textos académicos sobre Economía, Contabilidad y Fianzas, nos sorprende agradablemente con una antología de 35 poemas donde presenta, a través de su visión personal, temas universales como el Amor, el Padecer y el Vivir.