Amor y Odio

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...

NO hay miedo que atenaza la libertad de un pueblo, NO hay amenaza que provoque tal desvelo. Porque NO hay taza ni taza y media. NO hay tenaza, no mordaza, si de piel para dentro mando yo. (La ley innata). —Porque podrán silenciar nuestra voz, pero nunca nuestros corazones—.

Poesía es un libro en el que Adolfo Castañón reúne los versos de Alfonso Reyes que habían aparecido dispersos en los veintiséis volúmenes de sus Obras completas. Los cincuenta textos de este último título de la colección Capilla Alfonsina se encuentran organizados en cuatro secciones: “Raíces”, sobre su familia e infancia; “Insomnios, compañías, saudades”, acerca del amor, la amistad y la soledad; “Convivios”, sobre su poética y ‘el arte de vivir’; y “Grecias”, que contiene los poemas mayormente configurados en torno a la Hélade.

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...