Irremediablemente... la soledad

Catullus is a companion of lovers and of those whom love has disappointed. He is also a satirical and epigrammatic writer who savagely consoles with laughter. Carmina captures in English both the mordant, scathing wit and also the concise tenderness, the famous love for reluctant Lesbia who is made present in these new versions. A range of English metres and rhymes evokes the many modes and moods of this most engaging, erotic and influential of Latin poets. Of Len Krisak's translations of Horace, Frederic Raphael writes, [He] enables us both to enjoy a fresh voice and to hear (and see), very...

"In his poem, "Toward a Portrait of the Undocumented," Javier O. Huerta writes, "The economy is a puppeteer / manipulating my feet. / (Who's in control when you dance?) / Pregnant with illegals, the Camaro / labors up the road; soon I will be born." Sharing similar experiences with the more than eleven million undocumented people who live in the United States, Huerta struggles with his own sense of loss, caught between his life here and his past in Mexico. "Soy nadiense," he writes in another poem - I am from nowhere." "In this, Huerta's first full-length collection of poetry, he explores...

Una forma simple de escribir, que te va llevando por un camino de calles vacías llenas de gente, entender que los días son eso, sólo días que pasan y se llevan la vida, se llevan un poco de ti, no puedo dar más de lo que tengo y en cada letra me doy, mueren pidiendo a gritos vivir una oportunidad, a eso que llamamos amor. Está en tus manos el material escrito de un corazón que llora, que ama, que ríe y, cansado de buscar, encuentra, a veces nada, a veces las palabras precisas de un olvido constante, adentrarse en la escritura de una forma sutil, lenta, suave, para entender que los...

Aquí me quedo obtuvo una mención especial en el concurso El Puerto Edita (2022). El jurado estuvo conformado por Laura Forchetti, Luis Sagasti y Mónica Ortelli. Presenta dos partes: Ciclos y Receso estival. 25 poemas en total.