Poemas articulados sin razón aparente

Quan Barry embarks on discursive inquiry in Controvertibles. She lifts familiar cultural moments out of their usual settings and repositions them in front of new, disparate backdrops, endeavoring to understand the essence of modern experience. Doug Flutie's famous Hail Mary pass and Rutger Hauer's role in Blade Runner are contextualized within the Tibetan Book of the Dead, while an ultrasound reading acts as a meditation on the limits of critical theory. Samantha Smith, the Shroud of Turin, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Beamon's world-record-setting long jump, the largo from Handel's Xerxes, the...

Suena a grito de entusiasmo, retórico y casi especulativo, de alguien que en plena madurez habría encontrado su modo absoluto de expresión artística, si por poesía, se entiende la que acarrea también, inherente y de raíz, la propia música o la música que precisa la poesía hasta convertirse en arte sonoro.

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

“Nacido para Triunfar es una historia de reinserción a la vida civil. Es no sólo un testimonio de un niño reclutado por un grupo armado, sino un testimono de vida, y un relato de horfandad, pobreza, y guerra. Nacido para triunfar es la segunda parte de Testimonio de un adolescente desvinculado de un grupo armado ilegal.