Porque nadie se merece que lo arrastre a mis tinieblas

En la obra de Jose Abreu Felippe en un principio fue el verso, la poesia. Por eso no es de extra–ar que en su extensa escritura narrativa el gesto poetico sea una presencia constante, el hilvan que deposita en el lector el misterio que s—lo la poesia puede revelar. Y es que Jose Abreu Felippe es, sobre todo, un poeta, cuyo ojo, por encima de lo circunstancial transitorio, ve mas alla y su revelaci—n nos estremece. Asi, en un final, regresa, felizmente, al verso, a la poesia. Pio E. Serrano

This is a Spanish-language edition of The Latin Deli, Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, El deli latino opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes work that has made "important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of...

Todo comienza y todo acaba. Entre los puntos alfa y omega de nuestra vida podemos precisar dos etapas: una creciente y otra decreciente. Son las dos mitades que caracterizan todo proceso biológico. La ida crece hasta llegar al límite del proceso evolutivo. Luego comienza la involución. Como las fases de la luna: creciente, luna llena, decreciente, luna nueva. Así la vida.

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...