365 Pétalos De Rosas (365 Petals of Roses)

Poetry. "Bennett has been the avant in avant-garde in the latter half of the 20th century with his Lost and Found Times, one of the great 'small press poetry rags' of all time, and then through his Luna Bisonte Prods press. OLVIDOS ('Memories'; though the word also and literally means 'things forgotten') is quite possibly his masterpiece. 339 pages of zany often inarticulate expositions of a kind of lunar madness that can only be the work of the descendent of such poets as Vicente Huidobro and Guillaume Apollinaire. There is most likely something for everyone here from minimalist visual...

Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words is Lucha CorpiÍs pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in Spanish and expertly translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, the poems fairly bloom off the page in a display of lyric virtuosity. Corpi is the first of the Mexican American poets to explore through deeply personal and intimate feelings potentially explosive political topics, transculturation, the role of women, her commitment to social change, and the grand themes of love and death. Highly sophisticated, enchanting, and well...

«Una conmovedora lección de duelo.» Luis Bagué Quílez, El País (Babelia) «Se queda corto decir que es uno de los mejores libros de amor de la literatura reciente. Es una tabla de salvación ante el naufragio.» Josep Cuní, El Periódico «Qué hermoso que exista un espacio, llamado poesía, idóneo para expresar tan hondos y sentidos pensamientos. Grande, Luis.» Fernando Aramburu, El País «No es solo un poemario, sino también es una estancia de afectos.» Guillermo Balbona, El Diario Montañés «Libro luctuoso y triste, sí, pero al tiempo lleno de luminosidad, la del amor.»...

This expanded edition of Ruben Medina's 2010 chapbook Nomadic Nation / Nacion Nomada includes a new introduction by the author about his poetics as well as new translations of work originally written in Spanish. Composed in English, Spanish and Spanglish, these important poems reflect on the lives of immigrants/emigrants, our restless spirits, and the human journey: "We are at the periphery of the center / and at the center of the periphery / at the same time." Writes Medina in "Una poetica norteada" "There is no purity in language. There never has been. ... Interference can at times simply...