Lotería

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.

Que no son los crespones los que avanzan sino el abanderado que los lleva; que no son las banderas las que importan, sino el que avanza, incluso, a pesar de ellas.

Indispensable antología de Maria Antònia Salvá, considerada la primera poeta moderna en lengua catalana. La crítica ha señalado, además de la enorme calidad de su obra poética, su compromiso con la lengua y la cultura mallorquinas, aunque su condición de mujer provocó que se relegaran injustamente sus méritos. Esta antología de su poesía, traducida por Rodofo Häsler, constituye la mejor manera de ponerlos al día.

"RENOVATIO" is the 3rd collection of Bonafide Rojas & the 2nd publication from Grand Concourse Press. This collection of poems deal with the beauty of reinvention in life & in art, coming of age, dealing with death, fatherhood, the impermanence of our mortality, the realization of interconnectivity & the quiet beauty of solitude. "It's difficult to explain what Rojas has done in RENOVATIO. Like pulling a rabbit from a hat, it seems impossible to yank words from the stronghold of self like he has. But unlike pulling a rabbit from a hat, this is not an illusion. This is not a trick. Rojas...