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La fecha de 1526, año del encuentro de Boscán con el embajador de Venecia, es decisiva en la historia de la poesía española. Y lo es porque Boscán se decidió a escribir a la manera italiana abandonando la vieja poesía castellana. Que Garcilaso quisiera seguir ese camino, aclimatando prodigiosamente el endecasílabo, dio el triunfo definitivo a la nueva escuela. No obstante, la obra de los grandes poetas del siglo XV, como Juan de Mena o Manrique, siguió conviviendo con la nueva poesía renacentista llevada a la cumbre por poetas de la talla del propio Garcilaso, fray Luis, Aldana,...

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

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...

Ella misma, muy clarividente cuando el amor y la esperanza de ser feliz no la ciegan, declaró a uno de sus amantes: Jamás he sido feliz, ni hecho feliz a nadie. Estremecedora confesión de una mujer que deseó ser feliz y hacer feliz. De la