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These poems are about Love, Life and Living. The world is seen as a beautiful, complex and diverse place. These poems provide a picturesque view of the world. Love is beautiful when the going is good and terrible when it goes bad, leading to heartaches, nervous breakdown and sometimes even death. It can make or mare a man and has been the reason for the downfall of some notable successful men. Life is mysterious. Full of ups and down and has different stages which I prefer to call part 1, part 2 and for some people, part 3. The only constant thing in life is change and as each day comes with...

Buscar el positivismo de las situaciones nunca fue lo mío, así que me centré en canalizar mi dolor en escritos. Tres años llenos de emociones y oscuridad liberados para quien quierarevivirlos.

"Se las lee como si se escuchara una voz en el silencio más blanco: lo que dicen las palabras de los poemas de Alicia Genovese se hace necesario, inevitable como una naturaleza, nos envuelven como la gravedad, nos dicen, dicen lo que diríamos si pudiéramos decir junto con el río y los jardines y las mareas y los brazos y los motores y los amores, el amor, y los días y la muerte. Una poeta enorme nos recrea la lengua, la hacer decir otra vez como si fuera nueva. Salud y larga vida para Alicia Genovese". Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

This is a Spanish-language edition of The Latin Deli, Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, El deli latino opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes work that has made "important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of...