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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...

Las rosas de la carne nace enraizado en la tradición literaria, desde la recreación de los tópicos estéticos y amorosos del Renacimiento y del Barroco, pasando por las poéticas reno­vadoras del Modernismo o la Generación del 27, hasta las ramificaciones de la tradición poética andaluza del 50 y del 60. Sobre este sustrato, el libro camina firme hacia lo contemporáneo y lo futuro, al tiempo que se distancia de las modas anecdóticas del hoy, para no caducar con ellas cuando estas pasen. Lo celebratorio, incluso cuando se canta lo perdido para siempre, irrumpe con una sensualidad que...

Semántica secreta es un libro en el que el compromiso social y medioambiental se entrelazan con un análisis irónico de la gramática convencional, para desgranar una serie de poemas en los que el realismo no riñe con el hallazgo lírico.

A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden's new translation does full justice to Vallejo's complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of more than...