Versos Conversos

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...

PRESENTACIÓN POESÍAS Y PALABRAS CON DESTELLOS DE HUMANIDAD Y CON VIDA 1a ANTOLOGÍA Este libro esta creado como una antología en relación a los 3 libros, anteriormente publicados desde 1999 hasta el año 2007. Esos libros son: Nobles sentimientos publicado en el año 1999. Pasiones, Amores y Sueños, publicado en el año 2002 y el tercero, Poesías y palabras con destellos de humanidad y con vida, publicado en el Año 2007. Este libro es una selección de los poemas y relatos cortos, que tienen que ver Con la vida, con los valores y con el medio ambiente, con los derechos humanos y con...

All the poems in this work are those that the author has published between 1995 and 2001. Some poems that were later made into songs appear in both versions. As in the previous Inventario books, this one starts with the most recent poems and concludes with the oldest, perhaps with the hopes that the reader, by having access to this work through the newest and nearest door, will soon be tempted to open other doors, as if doing an inventory.

DESAGRAVIO DE LA CIGARRA Cántame hoy, cigarra, y olvídate del tiempo. Toda la vida cabe en un solo verano.