Del Amor y Otras Hierbas Adictivas Vol.2

Poemas escogidos de mis libros de poesías publicados sobre el amor, el desamor y otros temas de actualidad. Y monólogos poéticos.

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...

For Eduardo Urios-Aparisi poetry is above all, word, spoken word. Word that commits, pronounces, sounds. Word that leaves knots in the voice. For Urios, words play and challenge to play, to conceive the world from different and unsuspected points of view. The poems reflect the senses of the poet; moment to moment, in seduction, abandonment, and loss. It is reality flowing and always fleeing; fragmentary, accelerated, changing and unattainable.

Los poemas del libro Euridiciente configuran la memoria de una gitana, de una nómada que recorre el mundo en un exilio de siglos. Los versos de este libro, a veces son una sola letra, una palabra rota, un tartamudeo grave; otras, forman un torrente que reverbera. La voz lleva el ritmo de la sangre calé que la recorre en doble ascendencia, la paterna española y la materna rumana. Del cante jondo cruza su voz hacia la melancólica doina de amor, doina de la soledad extendida en un vibrante gorgeo, canto impregnado de dor. Dor es la palabra que caracteriza el sentimiento del pueblo Rumano,...