El contorno del roble

En la poesía de Las voces del tiempo, el alma y la voz se hacen transparentes, su contacto las vuelve indivisibles y las hace únicas. Cada poema conjuga la intensidad y la pureza de la soledad individual en la que se dibujan los trazos del destino; cada u

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...

alma cuerpo boleros es la acumulación de años de sueños, vida, trova, buenas y malas compañías, vinos, amores, desengaños, cigarrillos, alegrías, malas y buenas noches, boleros, locuras y corduras.

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...