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In her ode to “The Umbrella,” Viola Canales remembers a family story about her mother, who every Saturday as a child “popped open her prized child’s bright umbrella / as did her little sister / and followed their mother’s adult one / from their Paloma barrio home / to downtown Main Street McAllen / walking like ducks in a row / street after street,” until one Saturday “the littlest one disappeared / inside the wilderness of Woolworth’s.” Warm-hearted recollections of family members are woven through this collection of 54 poems, in English and Spanish, which uses the images...

Algún día llegaremos a la luna obtuvo el Premio de la Academia Castellano Leonesa de la Poesía destinado a Jóvenes Creadores 2007. El jurado destacó que se trataba de una obra “muy particular” por el uso que hace de la metáfora, la palabra y las expresiones, por su frescura y porque “encaja perfectamente con la seriedad poética y con la ironía que debe subyacer en toda poesía”.

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...

La dramaturgia de Koûros Habana imita la función de la copa cílica: solo apurando la sed borramos el vino, que como velo de templo nos impedía contornear la figura negra o roja del fondo. Dos manos harán falta para sostener esta reescritura del ethos clásico, donde la isla caribe embiste a la egea, en aras de dar victoria a eróticos partenaires tropicalizados, kuroi-ciudades-anatomías asolados por una sintaxis de la crueldad. Yoandy Cabrera prefiere la geometría de la pérdida, el símbolo tambaleante, la “horma del abismo”. Su particular ars amandi se muestra tajante en el...