I Am Still Me

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Este libro de poemas contiene, paradojalmente, una "extraña narrativa" que parte del deambular de una hablante lírica en las "calles de cualquier ciudad" para encontrarse con acontecimientos sobrecogedores como la muerte de un joven en el aberrante cadalso de los pobres que no pueden escapar a sus destinos miserables. Caminando entre desgarros y recuerdos de amigos muertos que caminan por los durmientes como fantasmas que no se dejan olvidar. En este paso a paso se mezclan el deseo, la distancia y el desamor. La necesidad de que ser uno en la copulación del cuerpo y del alma, a sabiendas...

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...

Tu mundo... mi mundo ¿Quién no ha vivido la espera, el amor y el desamor? ¿Quién no ha buscado y no ha soñado? ¿Quién no ha sobrevivido a una dura experiencia? ¿Quién no ha perdonado? ¿Quién no ha hecho una promesa eterna?Vivimos experiencias similares que nos conectan, atrévete a bucear en mi mundo, que es el tuyo también.