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"Poetry of Resistance" offers a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing. Bringing together more than eighty writers, the anthology powerfully articulates the need for change and the primacy of basic human rights.

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...

La literatura del antiguo Egipto que ha llegado a conocerse, casi siempre a través de deteriorados e incompletos papiros y presentando no pocos problemas de traducción a lenguas modernas no es nada sencilla. Javier Cortines ha hecho la labor correspondiente para facilitar la lectura con el mayor respeto al sentido primitivo de los textos. No estoy hablando de un mero traductor, sino de un aedo que compone sus propias obras al tiempo que celebra los vestigios de 'otros colegas' muy remotos. El autor viajó desde muy joven 'del uno al otro confín' del mundo empapándose de mitos, leyendas,...

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....