Y te llamé piedra cúbica

Quince poemas que exploran el dolor que esconde el amor, el vacío de la ausencia ininterrumpida y las sombras que una ilusión refleja sobre un corazón roto. Sara Duarte representa una nueva generación de escritores sin temor a desgarrar su alma para poner en versos la intensidad de la pasión en un mundo que parece solitario.

La poes a moderna peruana goza de un gran prestigio no s lo por tener como puntos de referencia las obras de C sar Vallejo, C sar Moro y Mart n Ad n, sino por esa cualidad tan peculiar de romper las formas y los contenidos de la tradici n l rica Para reutilizarlos, ya fragmentados y reordenados, en una nueva poes a con una visi n tan viva como culta. Nos encontramos as con una escritura que enriquece la lengua espa ola con una pisada fuerte y una sonrisa que no ignora la otra mitad del cuerpo.

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...

Heaviness. Time nullifies the present, it poisons future words. Actions repeat themselves: I breathe the same air, the same place the same memories. Heaviness. In Los dioses sí hablan (The Gods, in Truth, Speak), Claudia Quackenbush voices her encapsulated feelings and experiences that she has enjoyed since her marital romance—maternal expressions, sociopolitical thoughts, even her intimate memories, sending the reader to a world of love which breaks barriers and envelops time. Through her poems, one can envision a love for God and nature, peace, optimism, nostalgia, illusions, desire, as...