Dulce María Loynaz: Memorias de una poetisa

Fray Antonio Alcalde y Barriga. Los matices de una leyenda. Obra de Lilia Esthela Bayardo Rodríguez. Publicación de Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

¿Todo final es un nuevo comienzo? ¿Todo encuentro es un reencuentro? ¿Será que todos tenemos una caja llena de fotos que nos ponen tristes? Nos conocimos en una red social. Nos encontramos para vivir una aventura sin imaginar que llegaríamos a enamorarnos. Hicimos todo lo posible para que el amor prosperara, pero hubo una barrera que no pudimos franquear. Una vez que el destino precipitó el final, la pregunta es ¿existe la vida después de la muerte? Quizás haya chances para un último beso porque... No pude decirte adiós. Hoy, a dos años de la partida de Nacho quiero que todos...

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...