El amor de mis padres

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

Winner of a 2002 American Book Award Winner of the 2002 Colorado Book Award in Poetry "The natural voice at work in the poetry sings of one human life as if it were our own. I loved listening." —Rita Kiefer, author of Nesting Doll "This just may be one of the best books of poetry I have ever read. . . . This is the kind of writing that give poetry a good name." —Mike Nobles, Tulsa World "Abeyta's poetry amazingly captures this struggle with poems that are simultaneously tortured and thankful, celebratory and melancholy, earthly and ethereal. . . . Poet Abeyta beautifully captures the...

"Conozco bien la poesía de Leandro. Estoy familiarizado con ella desde hace algunos años. Y es a la luz de ese conocimiento y de esa familiaridad, que me atrevo a afirmar que este libro hoy honrosamente prologado por mí constituye la cota más alta, el nivel supremo a los que han llegado sus búsquedas estéticas y su trabajo lírico. La dicción y el fraseo son en estos poemas sencillamente majestuosos. Mallarmé decía que las tres cuartas partes de la eficacia poética de un textos estriban en su capacidad de sugerencia. En los poemas de "Entonces" es precisamente la capacidad de...

The first part of the book includes the work of Jorge Guillen, Vicente Aleixandre, Federico Garcia Lorca, Damaso Alonso, Luis Cernuda, and others. Critical essays on the social and cultural background of the works and studies of the poets themselves comprise the second part.