Cántico De Luna

A porte chiuse è un libro in cui il disincanto nei confronti della vita pubblica e dell’intimità privata si incarna nel linguaggio poetico mediante lo sdoppiamento soggettivo: la presenza di un doppio interno che si evidenzia nelle contraddizioni perenni del personaggio poetico e di un doppio esterno o Doppelgänger materializzato nella figura di un lupo. La rottura dell’unità del soggetto lirico viene confermata dall’uso peculiare della negazione e dei pronomi che riflette la straniante percezione della propria identità e la perdita di una coscienza univoca che,nonostante ciò,...

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...

Hay en cada poema de José Emilio Pacheco una clara voluntad de imaginar el lenguaje y el mundo por medio de una reflexión moral sobre nuestra condición: sus textos consiguen levantar mecanismos cristalinos a través de los cuales podemos ver, sentir y pensar la realidad circundante. En {El silencio de la luna }(1994) vemos a uno de nuestros mayores poetas en plena madurez creativa.

I am delighted to see this second book in the Bridges Series come to print. I originally conceived of this series of books to be a bridge between two cultures, a bridge between colleagues, friends and fellow writers - two Cubans and two Canadians in each book. Ever since the inception of the CCLA in 2004 we have tried to live up to our mandate: The mandate of the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance is to advance cultural solidarity between Canada and Cuba through the creative expression of poetry, prose, art and photography. This book will evidence our ongoing success. For me personally this book...