Mi alma entre las brasas

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...

"Cantos de vida y esperanza", de Rubén Darío. Rubén Darío fue poeta nicaragüense, máximo representante del modernismo literario en lengua española (1867-1916)

Botín de guerra es la historia de un cautiverio contado en primera persona. Versos que oscilan entre la búsqueda de lo existencial, la melancolía, la ironía y el humor. Su protagonista, un periodista que cubre la guerra civil en Siria, se refugia en la poesía cuando es secuestrado por combatientes yihadistas. El lector descubrirá su vida aquí y allí, en un continuo vaivén entre el encierro y el recuerdo de las vivencias atrás dejadas.

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed—having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere—is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican...