Perras de caza

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...

“Una poesía que se estremece consigo misma, como algo que acabase de nacer. Cualquiera que esté interesado en el arte hecho con palabras debería tenerla.” — Richard Hell, The New York Times Sunday Book Review — “En estos elegantes trabajos, Saroyan anticipó los siguientes treinta años de la poesía.” — Kenneth Goldsmith — “A finales de los sesenta, cuando me llamaba a mí mismo poeta, Aram era el poeta al que envidiaba. No podías estar seguro de si estaba tomándote el pelo o si realmente había conseguido todo lo que hay que conseguir. Porque, mientras el resto de...

“Cansador intrabajable” -como se autodefine- de la palabra, Bertoni vuelve al rescate de lo efímero, lo nimio, y lo eleva a epifanía e iluminación: “Estaba en un paradero / Me bajé y estuve a su lado / Hastaque tomó su micro / A más / No puedo aspirar”.

Poetry. "Bennett has been the avant in avant-garde in the latter half of the 20th century with his Lost and Found Times, one of the great 'small press poetry rags' of all time, and then through his Luna Bisonte Prods press. OLVIDOS ('Memories'; though the word also and literally means 'things forgotten') is quite possibly his masterpiece. 339 pages of zany often inarticulate expositions of a kind of lunar madness that can only be the work of the descendent of such poets as Vicente Huidobro and Guillaume Apollinaire. There is most likely something for everyone here from minimalist visual...