Poemas y otras barbaridades

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....

Ranging in subject from the life of the barrio to affairs of the heart, these poems transform the myths, ethos, and distinctive language of the Chicano community into a deeply personal poetry. Francisco Santana builds upon the Hispanic tradition of the poet who speaks for his pueblo in an original way.

Poemario que nace de la frase de Oscar Wilde "No soy tan joven como para saberlo todo", y homenajea a Miguel Hernandez, Rubén Darío y Federico García Lorca. Habla del mundo, de las huellas, del horror, de las bombas sobre Libia, del cielo, del cansancio, de la alegría y el ombligo del mundo.

"Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisfaerico imagines an alternative to the monolingualism of the U.S. literary and political landscape, and proposes a geo-neuro-political performance attuned to marginalized forms of knowledge, perception, and identity. Poet Urayoaan Noel maps the spaces between and across languages, cities, and bodies, creating a hemispheric poetics that is broadly geopolitical and intimately neurological"--Provided by publisher.