El verso y los hados

Fernando Pessoa (Lisboa, 1888-1935) es posiblemente el poeta europeo más leído y reseñado del siglo XX. Su personalidad poliédrica, a más de ocho décadas de su muerte, sigue imantando la atención de lectores de todos los continentes. Pero no es la integridad de su universo subjetivo lo que causa tal fascinación, sino todo lo contrario: el distanciamiento del Ser frente a sí mismo, la fragmentación de identidades y una crítica de la vida cotidiana que asume lo absurdo como omnipresente, son algunos de los atributos más notorios de su poesía. El lector, mediante la exploración de...

Sobre las palabras del poema y hasta en sus silencios, sobresale el temor y el conocimiento de realidades escondidas, y es posible acercarse a ellas para una mejor entrega.

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...

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 ...