Enamorado Del Amor

Sentimientos profundos expresados de una forma bella y precisa. Poesías ricas en variedad y matices. La esperanza se lee desde el primer poema: "He sentido tanto aunque mi vida ha sido poca y jamás me explico por qué mi destino ha sido así. Pero sobre todas, le deseo besar a una su boca al estar convencido que sólo ella me haría feliz."

La poesía es una forma de conocimiento; una imagen, cierto ritmo, nos revelan la esencia de las cosas de manera mas viva y mas intensa que un complejo sistema filosófico. Conocimiento intuitivo, supra racional, de índole distinta al conocimiento científico, pero no menos cierto; podrán caer en desuso determinadas teorías para explicar el universo sin menoscabo del valor del verdadero poema, el cual trasciende las limitaciones de su época.

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...

For Eduardo Urios-Aparisi poetry is above all, word, spoken word. Word that commits, pronounces, sounds. Word that leaves knots in the voice. For Urios, words play and challenge to play, to conceive the world from different and unsuspected points of view. The poems reflect the senses of the poet; moment to moment, in seduction, abandonment, and loss. It is reality flowing and always fleeing; fragmentary, accelerated, changing and unattainable.