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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....

Sze's poetry is bold and versatile and brings together "disparate realms of experience." -The New Yorker

Excerpt from Parnaso de Mexico: Antologia General, Luis Rosado Vega Tal duo, y corno ligera la voz y discretamente, fué a perderse dulcemente en el bosque y la pradera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish ...

Obituario del joven narrador colombiano Juan Pablo Parra, primer lugar del premio de libro de cuento R. H. Moreno Durán Sub 35 – Colombia, encarna ese ave que recién se lanza, que surca, que inicia su camino hacia la trascendencia, ese lugar donde todo escritor quisiera llegar para dejar testimonio de una época, de una situación dada, de su pequeña aldea. En los territorios dispuestos para estos relatos, se exhibe un mundo regido por la barbarie, la violencia y la cotidianidad. La muerte que se repite acostumbra a las personas a la violencia, normaliza su rostro de mala madre,...