Lujuria

Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words is Lucha CorpiÍs pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in Spanish and expertly translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, the poems fairly bloom off the page in a display of lyric virtuosity. Corpi is the first of the Mexican American poets to explore through deeply personal and intimate feelings potentially explosive political topics, transculturation, the role of women, her commitment to social change, and the grand themes of love and death. Highly sophisticated, enchanting, and well...

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....

A Mexican-born poet and humanistic essayist fascinated with the nuiances of written and verbal imagination continues his exploration of the constant interplay of literature and art with life, being, and existence.

'Abolición de la pena de muerte' es el primer libro de poemas del pe-riodista y músico Javier Gallego, conocido como 'crudo' por el pro-grama de radio de agitación social, política y cultural que dirige, Carne Cruda 2.0 (Cadena SER). Si en sus textos radiofónicos aborda las sacudidas y luchas sociopolíticas de nuestro tiempo, en sus poemas disecciona las fracturas y convulsiones del alma con la misma crudeza, incluso con violencia. 'Abolición de la pena de muerte' es un poemario sin concesiones, escrito con las tripas y directo al estómago, un libro incómodo, duro y descarnado, una...