Los días que no escribí

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 ...

Carolina Campos y yo nos dimos cita en el Kracovia para conocernos y que yo le firmara mis novelas Limón Blues y Limón Reggae en noviembre de 2010. Carolina era bachiller en Relaciones Internacionales y estudiaba Economía en la Universidad de Costa Rica, donde yo enseño. Inteligente e inquieta, la vida le explotaba en cada poro. Su manejo del español era excelente y yo pensé con esas ganas de comerse el mundo va a escribir. No volví a saber de ella. Más tarde me contó que en el 2018 entró al Laboratorio Popular de Literatura y a partir de allí empieza a escribir y publicar poesía. ...

De los muchos caminos con que un hombre cuenta para escapar del apaciguamiento, éstos son seguramente los tres más importantes: la incondicionalidad de la lucha, el rescate de los muertos y la distorsión de la lengua. En su dimensión política, son tres formas espléndidas de encarnar la resistencia, junto a los otros hombres y mujeres de su tiempo.

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...