Transversal-Opus morbo

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...

DESAGRAVIO DE LA CIGARRA Cántame hoy, cigarra, y olvídate del tiempo. Toda la vida cabe en un solo verano.

De verdadero regalo para los lectores puede considerarse este libro de Luis García Montero, en el que sus poemas abordan valientemente —como cabría esperar de uno de nuestros mejores poetas contemporáneos— el sentimiento amoroso, un tema al que la poesía última parecía haber renunciado pero que en Completamente viernes inspira, como podrá comprobar el lector, poemas memorables. Si la veta amorosa ya estaba en algunos libros anteriores del propio García Montero, en éste se manifiesta con un protagonismo radical y vertebrador. No hay momento, actividad, día que no esté...

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...