Por si me ves volar sin ti

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...

Natalia Toledo'sThe Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems of love and loss the world's population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma.The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico's highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004. FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!

Último (y primer) libro de la joven poeta Paula Ilabaca, quien el 2010 ganó el Premio de la Crítica de la Universidad Diego Portales. (in) completa es un libro que tiene la fuerza del cuerpo, de los sentidos, con versos que provienen del fondo de la poesía misma.

Cecilia Casanova escribe “sin efectos especiales”. En blanco y negro, dice, como una vieja película. Como un trazo caligráfico de la escritura china, a medio camino entre la palabra y la imagen, haciéndolas tocarse en la gracia de una sola, ligera huella, haciéndose presente al borde de la nada. No es poca hazaña. Poemas hechos de instantes mínimos, en los que relumbra, intempestivamente, lo inmenso. Los maestros de este arte son orientales. La tradición de nuestra poesía suele olvidarlos, o no saberlos leer. Leer a Cecilia Casanova −o leer a Ungaretti, por ejemplo− es...