Aristas ancestrales

En Tatuajes encontramos vestigios que acercan la poetica de Ana Luisa Martinez a la del nuevo paradigma. La finalidad de su obra es serle fiel a la voz poetica, deshacerse de preceptos y conceptos, entablar el dialogo con el lector, y para ello se ve obligada a plasmar la crueldad del dia a dia. En otras palabras, Tatuajes trata de un viaje desde los confines del ego a la ilimitada dimension del corazon, en donde el mundo y sus lenguajes con todas sus vicisitudes, le sirven como maestros al yo poetico que, ya sea por la crueldad que percibe o por una conciencia unitiva, adquirida a traves de...

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...

Para algunos estudiosos de la literatura mexicana, Elías Nandino Vallarta es un poeta adscrito a Contemporáneos, grupo de vanguardia que remozó el panorama literario mexicano en teatro, poesía y ensayo durante la primera mitad del siglo pasado, sin embargo la carrera literaria de Nandino y su particular visión sobre la poesía sensitiva por encima del preciosismo y la retórica, lo hizo tomar un camino aparte respecto de los escritores de su época y una concepción particular sobre lo que es el arte. Además de ser médico de profesión, el poeta jalisciense dedicó parte de su tiempo a ...

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...