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The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Esta breve antología de la poeta mexicana Coral Bracho, desarticulada de cualquier pretensión mimética, revela ese momento en que las palabras "les son infieles a las cosas", para ponerlas en ese lugar en donde nacen con el mundo que nombran, como in tocado. La delicada revelación, en su voz, se hace fuerte, precisa; y múltiple como una flecha que se clava en el viaje del rizoma. La palabra no nombra un mundo plano y fijo; se desliza de haz a envés por los sentidos y revela los objetos como inagotables.

Como cada línea que sale de las mismas entrañas hasta hacerse lucir en el blanco lienzo...hermosa palabra de consentimiento a la vida, es aquella que dicta amor. Sinceridad profunda que desplaza el bello sentimiento, haciendo únicas las vivencias y rescatando todo pensamiento hacia la felicidad. La razón de vivir se manifiesta a través del amor ese amor que eleva el ser sobre al desafío de la vida. Abro mi corazón y lo dejo respirar amor puro, amor que entrego sin condición. Estoy de paso en la vida, irradio amor por doquier, mas allá de los astros está Dios y eso es lo que desea de ...

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 ...