Inspiración

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 ...

En Manuel de cordura, continúa con la profundización social de la obra anterior del autor, Poemas para perros (Point de Lunettes, 2007). Junto al cuestionamiento de ciertos convencionalismmos sociales, el autor dedica también este nuevo libro a distintos viajes que le han marcado, así como a una reinterpretación personal del mito de Ulises y del viaje.

Deseos, Poemas de la vida es un compendio potico para el disfrute de los amantes de la poesa y las conexiones amorosas, es parte integral de la vida en el que se relata a modo de poema, las diferentes situaciones que a muchos nos toca vivir en nuestro diario andar. La poesa toca el alma de quienes la leen y nos ayuda de una forma ms hermosa y simple a comprender el sentir del artfice de las letras y a darnos cuenta que tanto nos conecta con su magia y realidad.

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...