Esta gaviota blanca

"Presents a collection of manuscripts from the Spanish Nobel Prize winner, reconstructing his conception of the island of Puerto Rico, a place where he and his wife found refuge during the Spanish Civil War."

This bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poetry reflects a broad continuum of styles and offers generous selections from the writings of 20 poets. "I can't recommend it highly enough."--Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "The Devil's Highway."

Perras de caza condensa una escritura tan aguerrida como poética, que envuelve un grito apasionado y feroz en pos de la liberación de las mujeres: versos que no dejan de cautivarnos. En sus poemas, Irene X rompe abruptamente con el silencio que envuelve un mundo artístico gobernado por hombres. En palabras de la autora: «Un mundo donde la mujer —siempre tratada como un ente frágil para poder quebrarlo— es objeto de abuso, coacción, extorsión y burla. Reducida a ser la compañera arrodillada, una mascota fiel. Que tarde o temprano será colgada, abandonada o llevada al matadero....

This is a Spanish-language edition of The Latin Deli, Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, El deli latino opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes work that has made "important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of...