Una vida en varios poemas

"Selección elemental de textos del V Encuentro Internacional, X Nacional de Poetas "Nicanor de la Fuente", Chiclayo 2002."

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 ...

Perras de caza condensa una escritura tan aguerrida como poética, que envuelve un grito apasionado y feroz en pos de la liberación de las mujeres: versos que no dejan de cautivarnos. En sus poemas, Irene X rompe abruptamente con el silencio que envuelve un mundo artístico gobernado por hombres. En palabras de la autora: «Un mundo donde la mujer —siempre tratada como un ente frágil para poder quebrarlo— es objeto de abuso, coacción, extorsión y burla. Reducida a ser la compañera arrodillada, una mascota fiel. Que tarde o temprano será colgada, abandonada o llevada al matadero....

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...