Poeta en San Francisco

The American poet and translator presents a bilingual collection of poems about his days in Madrid, the losses that come throughout life, and the experience of living in two cultures.

Resulta que al final era un tumor cerebral maligno. Es increíble cómo todo tu mundo puede derrumbarse en un instante y solo te queda reconstruirlo o desaparecer entre las ruinas. Pues bien, El ahora y el vacío es mi legado de respuestas; mis respuestas a las preguntas eternas. Pero no expresadas solamente desde las matemáticas o la filosofía, sino desde su alquimia con el sentimiento. No sé si esta fusión de física y poesía cambiará la forma en la que ves la vida, pero quizá sí la forma en la que percibes el tiempo.

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, ...

The poems in this collection mix English and Spanish while tracing the ?kool logic? of culture in transit. Scuttling from free verse and limericks to d?cimas and terza rima, the poet is our guide on a transcultural tour through downtowns, suburbs, stockyards, shantytowns, power lunches, HMOs, open mics, and open sores. Fusing pop riffs, Beat whimsy, Nuyorican punch lines, and modernist deadpan, the poet in these pages is also the comedian, the visionary, the j?baro, the agitator, the theorist, the lounge singer, the slacker ? Puerto Rican poet and performer Urayo?n Noel has coined a new sort...