La órbita del deseo

Tuve la suerte de nacer en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Los primeros años de mi vida transcurrieron en Villa Ahumada, tierra de mis padres y abuelos, un pueblo de paso, seco, sin historia, sin pena ni gloria, pero con gente buena sencilla y noble. Después, de vuelta a mi ciudad natal, que siempre me ha recibido con los brazos abiertos como una madre amorosa que sin preguntar me arropa entre sus calles viejas, esas calles que a diario ven pasar la vida tan desnuda como el aire, y caminar la muerte fanática con su fría guadaña destazando oscuridades... Mi espíritu tal vez se fue amoldando...

Since 1931, Buesa was a writer for all the main radio companies in Cuba, as well as program director and scriptwriter for television and cinema.

A selection of poetry by Francisco Brines, Spain’s most eminent living poet. A fully bilingual text with preface. In November 2020 Brines was awarded the prestigious Cervantes Prize for Literature, widely regarded as equivalent to the Nobel, for a ‘poetic work that goes from the carnal and the purely human to the metaphysical, to the spiritual, towards an aspiration of beauty and immortality’, according to the jury. Translation was supported by the Ministry of Culture in Spain. Una selección de la poesía de Francisco Brines, el poeta contemporáneo español más importante. Todos los...

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...