El Ombligo del Mundo

Poemario en defensa de la poesía gnóstica, que critica la poesía de la experiencia, y parte de la idea de Bukowski: "pero como dijo Dios, cruzándose de piernas: veo que he creado muchos poetas pero no mucha poesía.," para realizar un recorrido final por la geografía mítica de Grecia (Olimpia, Sunio, Delfos...).

Los versos que conforman el poemario reflexionan sobre el arte mismo de la poesía, sobre su derrotero y sus búsquedas. La voz que habla en los textos retoma la tradición para reinsertarse en ella. De manera implícita, estos poemas ensalzan a los maestros de la poesía y al oficio mismo.

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

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...