Una Gota de mi Manantial

A winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU Prize offers a playful yet serious collection of poems that explore the richness of her cultural and linguistic heritage, which spans from Mexico to the Philippines; defend with vigor and humor the color purple; and analyze the insecurities of the letter “h”; among other things. Original. 15,000 first printing.

"La poesia de Mistral es la voz de la nostalgia de la naturaleza sublimada en un mundo interior que se enriquece en entornos ajenos, la palabra mestiza en la que se fusionan mundos diversos, y una religiosidad que no atiende a los canones de ningun credo."

23-EL CAMINO PARA ENCONTRARTE SE ESCRIBE EN VERSO: Es una nueva forma de ver y sentir la poesía a través de mis versos, los poemas llevan un orden cronológico, transformándose en una novela romántica. Tiene un final, un inicio y una verdad. "Algunas vidas empiezan con versos que florecen: hay vidas que van de espinas a versos; aquellas manos que te soltaron, nunca te tuvieron; y hay manos queriendo encontrarte, a través del tiempo; hay manos que nunca sujetaste; que las extrañarás siempre. Lo cierto es que la vida, en todas sus formas, es una poesía". Permítame presentarle esta...

Poetry. "Bennett has been the avant in avant-garde in the latter half of the 20th century with his Lost and Found Times, one of the great 'small press poetry rags' of all time, and then through his Luna Bisonte Prods press. OLVIDOS ('Memories'; though the word also and literally means 'things forgotten') is quite possibly his masterpiece. 339 pages of zany often inarticulate expositions of a kind of lunar madness that can only be the work of the descendent of such poets as Vicente Huidobro and Guillaume Apollinaire. There is most likely something for everyone here from minimalist visual...