Aware

Un libro de poemas en el cual se expresan un sin fin de sentimientos, el misterio de la locura enamorada, imaginarte que eres una persona amada, sentir el amor en sus diversas formas, desde un brinco en una cama hasta ese beso tan deseado y compartirlo con la persona ms querida que se te haya atravesado en tu camino. Si quieres darte tiempo para recordar un bello amor, tal vez a alguien que ya no est, en un poema lo puedes encontrar, al leerlo encontrars un lenguaje sencillo y fcil de entender.

Deseo que cuando tengan este libro en sus manos y lean su contenido. Se den cuenta de que el amor todo lo puede. El amor es una palabra de tan solo cuatro letras, pero que puede abrir muchas puertas. Amor... Una palabra tan corta, pero muy grande su significado.

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...

Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico—few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes major international writers like Alberto ...