Nana de la medusa

In this modern novel by Marina Perezagua, Don Quixote is disguised as C3P0 and Sancho Panza has chosen an Ewok suit to cross over to New York. In one of many chance encounters on their trip, a woman gives her Bible to Don Quixote who avidly reads it for a week. This reading inspires the adventures of the pair as they explore recognizable parts of the city today. In these short stories, New York appears as a big state where anything can happen.

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada, featuring an essay by Kristin Dykstra. "Omar Perez Lopez (1964-) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba. A former journalist, Perez has explored a wide array of literary genres, particularly poetry, translation, and the essay...At the center of SOMETHING OF THE SACRED is the exploration of displacement. Perez sees poetic metaphor as 'the subtle displacement of something objective'...His apparent strangeness, particularly in his varied uses of Zen traditions, ...

Un dia me propuse hacer algo, preparar un poemario con todas las poesias que tenia guardadas desde mucho tiempo atras. Dejar un recuerdo postumo para que mis hijas pudieran disfrutar en el futuro cuando pudieran leer este poemario. Desde que estaba en la escuela Intermedia Isabel Suarez de mi pueblo de Anasco siempre escribia poemas de diferentes generos que gustaron mucho entre mis amigos de estudio para aquel tiempo. Despues de tener varios poemas ya escritos me decidi a preparar un poemario donde incluyera mas poesias. Para entonces comence con una poesia que gusto mucho la cual titule...

"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...

Hierro ilustrado recoge los poemas esenciales de un autor que ya forma parte de nuestra tradición, en una edición que pretende ser no solo una referencia para entender su trayectoria poética y vital sino una completa e inédita noticia de su faceta como artista plástico. Retratos, autorretratos, paisajes y elementos diversos extraídos a golpe de mirada germinal sobre lo absoluto y también sobre lo infraordinario conviven junto a sus poemas como lo hicieran en vida de un hombre que amó el mundo, su luz, sus texturas; que se fascinó y nos conmovió desde la humanidad y su palabra.