Aromas

Ranging in subject from the life of the barrio to affairs of the heart, these poems transform the myths, ethos, and distinctive language of the Chicano community into a deeply personal poetry. Francisco Santana builds upon the Hispanic tradition of the poet who speaks for his pueblo in an original way.

Cualquier línea que escriba tiene la savia del árbol. Ya lo dijo Aurelio Arturo: "Cada hoja, una sílaba". Las raíces, troncos, ramas, flores, frutos y semillas... nuestra vida toda se parece al árbol. Ellos son padres, madres, alimento, sombra. Somos como los árboles en un constante ciclo de nacer, crecer, florecer y morir. Unos no renacemos. Otros no florecemos. Todos morimos. Y al marcharnos nos entierran en un ataúd de madera, para que no quede duda de su generosidad y cobijo de principio a fin. Estos poemas son un reconocimiento no solo a los árboles, sino también a todas las...

Natalia Toledo'sThe Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems of love and loss the world's population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma.The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico's highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004. FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!

A selection of poetry by Francisco Brines, Spain’s most eminent living poet. A fully bilingual text with preface. In November 2020 Brines was awarded the prestigious Cervantes Prize for Literature, widely regarded as equivalent to the Nobel, for a ‘poetic work that goes from the carnal and the purely human to the metaphysical, to the spiritual, towards an aspiration of beauty and immortality’, according to the jury. Translation was supported by the Ministry of Culture in Spain. Una selección de la poesía de Francisco Brines, el poeta contemporáneo español más importante. Todos los...