Al atardecer todos los gatos se sienten muy solos

Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of...

The poems in this collection mix English and Spanish while tracing the ?kool logic? of culture in transit. Scuttling from free verse and limericks to d?cimas and terza rima, the poet is our guide on a transcultural tour through downtowns, suburbs, stockyards, shantytowns, power lunches, HMOs, open mics, and open sores. Fusing pop riffs, Beat whimsy, Nuyorican punch lines, and modernist deadpan, the poet in these pages is also the comedian, the visionary, the j?baro, the agitator, the theorist, the lounge singer, the slacker ? Puerto Rican poet and performer Urayo?n Noel has coined a new sort...

Provocative essays on poetry, ballet, and Cuban and world literature by one of Cuba's and Latin America's greatest poets. The only edition authorized by the late poet's estate.

CUANDO LEAS MI LIBRO Cuando leas este libro encontrarás mi corazón dentro de él. Siento que mi sentir ha sido guiado por Dios para poder expresar lo que siente mi corazón. El estar enamorada de la vida, me hace sentirme plena, satisfecha con ganas de seguir luchando para conseguir lo que quiero. Y ¿sabes que quiero? Quiero dar a conocer el sentir de mi corazón, que siento como mujer, llena de ganas de vivir, de amar y ser amada. Estoy de pie porque he renacido a una nueva vida llena de plenitud, de conocimiento, apertura a una nueva vida, un despertar de amor y de ilusiones. Quiero que...