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Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico—few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes major international writers like Alberto ...

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...

Loving poetry is a symbol of indolence, a challenge that requires solitude and silence, sacrifice and permanent devotion. All that a human being needs to live can be found in poetry, the artistic genre par excellence. El libro de los indolentes is a journey towards an unknown place where we inhabit, each day, a fortified but unwalled space, a river that gushes truth.

Estebán Beltrán Verdes, director de Amnistía Internacional España, se adentra en este poemario en una historia de amor ciego y extraordinario. ¿Se puede desear a quien no quiere vivir? ¿Se puede uno guiar por la presencia obsesiva de la esperanza y, a la vez, afirmar que la vida no es más que un curso avanzado de escepticismo? ¿Cómo esconderse de alguien cuando ocupa toda tu vida? ¿Cómo no esperar nada si te educaste en la verdad incuestionable de intercambio de golpes y recompensas? Este poemario se adentra, a través de un lenguaje descarnado repleto de exabruptos medidos, en la...