Lujuria

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.

La historia de Gregorio es una novela de contexto único en el arquetipo de relatos convencionales propios del estilo, una estilizada y veraz comunicación entre el lector, el narrador y el personaje que dejaran la reflexión en su máximo grado de entendimiento. Una obra que dará que hablar en el transcurso de su evolución como la forma prosaica más moderna lograda hasta estos tiempos.

A la manera de un lienzo del barroco neerlandés Pieter Claesz, la colección de poemas que integra Naturaleza muerta reúne una serie de retratos simbólicos sencillos y oscuramente deslumbrantes. Animales, insectos y plantas; esculturas de dioses griegos o héroes de la antigüedad clásica, objetos tales como un maniquí o el mapa de una ciudad, conforman un breve poemario que brilla por la sencillez y la destreza de su ejecución, armado a la manera de los nocturnos bodegones de los siglos XVI y XVII y lleno de erudición clásica pero accesible a todo público, profano y exigente.

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 ...