Cicatriz Souvenir

Elvira Hernández suena y resuena como una de las voces vivas más vivas de la poesía hispanoamericana

La perpetua amenaza de la lluvia nos sumerge en un mundo poético de encuentros y desencuentros, en los que los sentidos se desbordan a ritmo acompasado, verso tras verso, hasta la melancolía. Subyacen las búsquedas y los contactos ?unos muy cercanos y otros más distantes?, pero siempre asediados por la posibilidad de la separación, de la huida y de la pérdida. Late, entre sus páginas, la inminencia de un algo, un algo en movimiento que le imprime al conjunto una gran intensidad poética que deviene en un todo coherente y redondo en el que incluso el silencio, igualmente inminente,...

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...

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!