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A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the middle of one’s life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of The Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of ...

"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...

Todos hemos estado enamorados alguna vez. Ese amor pudo haber sido correspondido o pudo haberse quedado en visto. No me voy a meter en eso, pero es bueno saber que a la hora de declararse siempre hay que ser directo, conciso y, sobre todo, sincero. Trece poemas de amor y una cosa larga es nada más y nada menos que eso, algo directo, conciso y sincero.

El manuscrito es una original obra, escrita con un lenguaje altamente elaborado, que es resultado de una investigación amplia de quien lo escribe. El libro muestra una sólida estructura, que incluye una secuencia epistolar contenida entre poemas, que apuntan a imágenes hermosas de tinte surrealista. El mundo poético desarrollado refleja un gran dominio del tema y mucha destreza al mezclar referencias pictóricas, musicales, poéticas y de personajes históricos. Julieta Dobles, Paola Valverde, Alí Víquez Jurado Premio Eunice Odio 2016