Sueno Fugaz

De los muchos caminos con que un hombre cuenta para escapar del apaciguamiento, éstos son seguramente los tres más importantes: la incondicionalidad de la lucha, el rescate de los muertos y la distorsión de la lengua. En su dimensión política, son tres formas espléndidas de encarnar la resistencia, junto a los otros hombres y mujeres de su tiempo.

Cestos de lilas es la propuesta poética de Elizabet Fabregas, en la que recorre su infancia, su pasado y su presente. La escritura ha sido siempre una segunda parte de mi yo herido, un desentierro de palabras. Para mí escribir es superar, transformar, ordenar y resignificar los períodos de mi vida. La propuesta que contiene Cestos de lilas se divide en dos secciones: en la primera, describo mi infancia, la construcción del yo, el hogar, la familia, el pasado y el presente. Las flores y la naturaleza han sido muy importantes en mi vida, así que desde ese punto la integro como una parte...

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...

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 ...