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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...

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Voz, poemas de Jorge Verly. Obra premiada no edital de literatura da Secult-ES, Voz faz de Verly um dos principais poetas contemporâneos do Espírito Santo. Jorge Verly (1981) é capixaba e transita entre São Mateus (nascimento, hoje) e Boa Esperança (infância, juventude). Professor de História na rede estadual, é também pesquisador da área de Letras, com especial interesse nas interfaces entre a música popular e a literatura. Possui trabalhos e artigos publicados em livros e periódicos e está concluindo uma tese de doutorado em que une a filosofia de Theodor W. Adorno e o...

En Adriático la poesía une las islas separadas y provoca nuevas cartografías imaginarias, a partir de la síntesis simbólica de lugares distantes y distintos que mantienen sus bellos nombres originales y que perviven en la memoria y en el afecto. Cada nombre es un pequeño altar en el que se adora algún lar ligado a la tierra ancestral, la tierra adriática del padre y de la madre, pero también a los dioses nuevos, los hallados, los encontrados y a la vez construidos. La magnífica flora de los trópicos y sus aves llamativas siempre están presentes en las escenas que el poema dibuja,...