Bisturí con alma de poeta 2

A través de una serie de poemas breves, Visible y no / Seen and unseen (ALJA Ediciones, 2014) explora la pintura del famoso pintor cubano Tomás Sánchez. Y ante los cuadros donde naturaleza y meditación interactúan tan íntimamente, Elsa Cross se pregunta si esos paisajes espléndidos no son acaso la visión interna del meditador. Edición bilingüe. Traducción al inglés: John Oliver Simon.

Umbra Vitae (segunda edición, ilustrada por Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1924) contiene los poemas póstumos de Georg Heym. En ellos, plasma una síntesis poética entre la necesidad de expresión artística, la inconformidad con su entorno y la adaptación como base del orden social. Construye un universo poético confinado a paisajes de "distancia inabarcable" y ciudades "desesperantemente estrechas", donde la distinción entre naturaleza y espacio social desaparece para convertirse en un "estancamiento vacío y desierto" (Starre der leeren Öde). "Estancamiento" y "desierto", leitmotivs de la...

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Gustavo Perez examines relationships, sex, and Cuban American life in this collection of accessible poems. He handles both Spanish and English with seamless assurance. Gustavo Perez Firmat was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Floria.