Los colmillos del dragón

"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...

A medida que nos adentramos en este poemario, acompañamos al poeta en un viaje por un lugar desconocido y a la vez familiar: el cuerpo de la amada. Con cada nuevo poema, dibujamos una nueva ruta, una curva, una etapa, marcamos los lugares que distinguen este territorio —la comisura de los labios, el ombligo, la entrepierna—. Los poemas de Victoria Ribero son poemas carnales, se alimentan de la materia corporal o, como revela el propio subtítulo, se nutren «De la carne: sabores, texturas y olores». Donde el corazón me lleve es una celebración de la vida como presencia. Una presencia...

En honor a la cobardía que me cargo, he tomado una decisión. Que estas palabras están destinadas a no tener destino. Y que es una mera casualidad de vida si chocan contigo.

Introduces the latest collection of a noted Argentine-born poet who has lived the life of the grand artistic expatriate in Paris since 1961, yet retains the admiration and respect of literary critics in his native country to the point that Revista Debaste compared his creative talent and genius to that of Plato's demiurge.