28 poemas minimalistas 

This is a Spanish-language edition of The Latin Deli, Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, El deli latino opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes work that has made "important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of...

Antes sólo volaba si era contigo. Ahora, sólo espero que estés preparado. Por si ves mis nuevos logros, mis nuevas ilusiones, mis nuevos sueños. Por si me ves volar con unas nuevas alas, que nada tienen que ver contigo.

Con Pólvora en las alas, Federico Moreno mantiene una honda mirada hacia el ser humano y a su quebradiza naturaleza, a sus equívocos, a las cloacas a las que conducen sus barros. Las biografías sin homenaje de la gente oculta, la fugacidad del amor y la orfandad ante el abismo que nos presenta la vida son las tres partes que estructuran este intenso libro, construyendo un personal y estilizado espacio lingüístico donde se alojan, con algo de luz, familiares desencuentros.

Heaviness. Time nullifies the present, it poisons future words. Actions repeat themselves: I breathe the same air, the same place the same memories. Heaviness. In Los dioses sí hablan (The Gods, in Truth, Speak), Claudia Quackenbush voices her encapsulated feelings and experiences that she has enjoyed since her marital romance—maternal expressions, sociopolitical thoughts, even her intimate memories, sending the reader to a world of love which breaks barriers and envelops time. Through her poems, one can envision a love for God and nature, peace, optimism, nostalgia, illusions, desire, as...