Baladas españolas (Anotado)

Known primarily for his poetry of social protest Chicano poet Alurista moves in a new direction in Z Eros, which includes both erotic and political poetry. Moving rapidly between Spanish and English, he introduces readers to a language and a world that exists somewhere between the two cultures and voices. About half of this book is in English and the rest in Spanish.

This book, "De Mi Mente" (Spanish for from my mind), is a book of over 3,000 lyrics of which approximate 2,100 are written for a man to sing and the latter 900 are written for a woman to sing. All songs are interchangeable. Some of the songs are love songs but the lyrics are not written for political and religious reasons. The reader will have the option to arrange each song according to his or her taste of which each and every song can be arranged in a bolero, ranchera, cumbia; etc. The reader can choose at their choice of which song inspires them and in they are not obligated to make any...

En palabras de Jorge Aulicino acerca del autor “Bayley es de los viejos animosos que piensan que el derrumbe tiene sonidos parecidos a los de la construcción, así como se parecen las luces del amanecer y las del crepúsculo. Ninguna poesía ha sido quizá tan constructiva, tan adánica, como la de Bayley en su generación. La ecuación, para él se resuelve de este modo: si hay luces y sombras, hay finalmente luz, porque la luz es el acto tanto la sombra es sólo ausencia.”

Poems deal with Mexican American culture, mythology, and history, and evoke the author's impressions of the Texas landscape.