Emocionario

Heaviness. Time nullifies the present, it poisons future words. Actions repeat themselves: I breathe the same air, the same place the same memories. Heaviness. In Los dioses sí hablan (The Gods, in Truth, Speak), Claudia Quackenbush voices her encapsulated feelings and experiences that she has enjoyed since her marital romance—maternal expressions, sociopolitical thoughts, even her intimate memories, sending the reader to a world of love which breaks barriers and envelops time. Through her poems, one can envision a love for God and nature, peace, optimism, nostalgia, illusions, desire, as...

Sol que la vida nos das con tu luz nos iluminas haces que con tu calor del suelo surja la vida. Haces florecer los campos llenarlos de bellas flores y nos dejan sus encantos contemplando mil colores. Con tu calor ya las granas las semillas de ese trigo que cubren la gran pradera y sale cuando no hay frío. AMOR

Loving poetry is a symbol of indolence, a challenge that requires solitude and silence, sacrifice and permanent devotion. All that a human being needs to live can be found in poetry, the artistic genre par excellence. El libro de los indolentes is a journey towards an unknown place where we inhabit, each day, a fortified but unwalled space, a river that gushes truth.

"Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisfaerico imagines an alternative to the monolingualism of the U.S. literary and political landscape, and proposes a geo-neuro-political performance attuned to marginalized forms of knowledge, perception, and identity. Poet Urayoaan Noel maps the spaces between and across languages, cities, and bodies, creating a hemispheric poetics that is broadly geopolitical and intimately neurological"--Provided by publisher.