Hilos de Vida

El libro constituye una edición de los textos más importantes y significativos de uno de nuestros más insignes poetas románticos, José de Espronceda (1808-1842), incluyendo una introducción en la que se contextualiza la obra en su época y se analizan los diversos avatares por los que ha pasado desde entonces.

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 ...

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...

Cruce de Cebra (Zebra Crossing) es el título que Luisa Govela eligió para este singular libro de poemas que consta de cuatro secciones. La primera, “Solsticio del olvido”, evoca el dolor de la pérdida, la nostalgia por los ausentes y desaparecidos, a veces en un entorno violento. La segunda, “En vilo”, está anclada hasta cierto punto en la realidad, tanto de la naturaleza en sí como de la naturaleza humana, con sus contradicciones, dolores, emociones y sorpresas; como en el poema “Bodas kafkianas” donde la ironía se cruza humorísticamente con las tragedias interiores de...