La perpetua amenaza de la lluvia

Natalia Toledo'sThe Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems of love and loss the world's population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma.The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico's highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004. FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!

Un lenguaje literario, que por excelencia se aprecia, más allá de lo sublime, la cadencia de la vida, su visión prefuturista del mundo, su contemporaneidad más el amor que permea y vuela a razón de la poesía que estremece la fibra del lector, sobre esa óptica universal en cada uno de sus textos.

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...

Presentación. Primera parte: El verso y la prensa. Segunda parte: El verso y los demás soportes escritos. Tercera parte: La oralidad. Cuarta parte: Producción-consumo. Quinta parte: El romancero: Estadísticas. Sexta parte: El romancero. Séptima parte: Los romanceros: los diferentes corpus. Conclusión general: Problemática de la ruptura. Bibliografía. Índice onomástico. Índice.