Cartas a Isabel

Poemas escritos por María Cristina López Stewart, militante del MIR secuestrada en 1974 por la DINA, durante la dictadura cívico-militar encabezada por Pinochet, que continúa desaparecida hasta hoy.

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

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed—having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere—is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican...

Entre estas hojas encontrarás cincuenta y una poesías que sumergen una historia de amor romántico y pasional, con un corazón latente en cada verso. Poemas sin palabras difíciles, que todxs los podamos entender, que los recordemos sin esfuerzo, que se entreguen a la poesía y sea silencioso, frágil y tierno.