Antología breve

“Como un nuevo Sísifo, el poeta arrastra así su drama existencial, que es también el nuestro: el de cuantos vivimos a la intemperie de la realidad, sin protección religiosa, mental ni moral alguna y a punto de perder también el sistema defensivo creado por nuestra sociedad, que ahora, como él dice, se derrumba. Ese y no otro es el escenario en que esta obra se ha escrito y en el que hoy se representa: esa y no otra es nuestra propia escenicación del drama que hoy vivimos. Los largos títulos de sus poemas funcionan como en el teatro una acotación. Andrés Morales se ha atrevido a...

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada, featuring an essay by Kristin Dykstra. "Omar Perez Lopez (1964-) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba. A former journalist, Perez has explored a wide array of literary genres, particularly poetry, translation, and the essay...At the center of SOMETHING OF THE SACRED is the exploration of displacement. Perez sees poetic metaphor as 'the subtle displacement of something objective'...His apparent strangeness, particularly in his varied uses of Zen traditions, ...

I am discovering the love that I have for myself. I am finding comfort in being alone. I can take all that time to better myself and my craft. Both entities I have mentioned are improving tremendously. I have made a lot of mistakes, yes. I have said a lot of things that I had no business saying, yes. Through those errors is where the true growth comes in. I'm glad that I was singled out, or not paid any attention to. It gave me all the motivation that I needed. Thank you.

The American poet and translator presents a bilingual collection of poems about his days in Madrid, the losses that come throughout life, and the experience of living in two cultures.

Eta primera selección bilingüe presenta lo mejor de su poesía al lado de traducciones al español hechas especialmente para este volumen. Se trata de un juego encantador de idiomas que revolotea con sus experiencias como poeta mexico-americano.