Nanopoética

En dedicatoria a Kendra, también a todas las familias que de algún modo tienen algún hijo(a) u otro familiar con una enfermedad terminal. Especialmente a pacientes con diagnostico de cáncer, diariamente ingresa un angelito sin que aquí afuera nos percatemos de la cruda realidad. Solo Dios es testigo, y fi el acompañante de todos los dolores, achaques y sufrimiento diario de estas criaturas. A todos esos campeones, luchadores fuertes. A ustedes dedico este libro. Tú no te has ido, solo te adelantaste para construir el camino que debo andar para seguirte.

Siete poemas de Wallace Stevens, originalmente publicados en su obra Harmonium (1923) traducidos al castellano.

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...

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...