Poemas de Amor Para Ti Mujer...

?Estos son mis sentiré, los que se imponen hoy... Sentires que renuevan el ideal y la esperanza en la humanidad Sentires de identidad, de tradición y valores recobrar, Sentires de despertar y actuar con responsabilidad, Sentires que no tienen tiempo ni caducidad, Sentires que son motores que mueven el andar, Sentires que son colores que pintan la vida con intensidad, Sentires que nadie tiene derecho a juzgar, Sentires de gran respeto a la diversidad. En fin Sentires del alma, de pasión, dolor o amor, Sentires que en ocasiones son una interrogación, Sentires que comprometen... Y me...

Poems deal with Mexican American culture, mythology, and history, and evoke the author's impressions of the Texas landscape

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence--published in a bilingual format--written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas. Thunderweavers is a story of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It deals with the...

The American poet and translator presents a bilingual collection of poems about his days in Madrid, the losses that come throughout life, and the experience of living in two cultures.