Mi reino por este mundo

"Tú no te olvides nunca de lo que era la vida. Que no te abrume y quiebre la sangre y el horror ni esta triste grisura de rutina vacía. Si los muertos pudieran levantarse y hablar, si pudieran alzar su voz los inocentes, te dirían que la vida son jardines y flores, las sonrisas, los sueños infantiles, las fuentes, los recuerdos, las nubes, "la douceur" del poeta. Aunque seas nihilista y estén rotas tus alas, no te olvides que el aire sigue siendo verdad."

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...

Se mueve la autora, quiere moverse entre espiritualidad y estética -lo cual es de agradecer, por inusitado, en los tiempos que corren-, entre mística y poesía, citando como ejemplo a seguir, a Luis Guillermo Alonso Martínez, jesuita casi vallisoletano y ya entrado en años, al que, sin decir su nombre, se refiere y aplaude como autor de El hombre perdido, poemario al que podría sumarse -entre otros- el titulado Si aún queda algo de voz, moviéndose ambos en los pagos dichos. Descontada queda, por obvia, la constante cercanía de Santa Teresa. Los versos que ahora se publican se llaman...

A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden's new translation does full justice to Vallejo's complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of more than...