Cuando El Ego Reposa

Con “El evangelio según la muerte” el escritor dominicano, José Acosta, ganó el Premio Internacional de Poesía "Nicolás Guillén" de México en 2003. Es un libro profundo, genuino y considerado muy denso conceptualmente, en el que la dimensión metafísica se mezcla con elementos surrealistas e imaginativos de extraordinaria belleza poética.

Between 1942 and 1964, men from different parts of Mexico left their lands and families seeking an opportunity for prosperity in the Unites States as Braceros. Their job was to work the agricultural fields of the United States while American citizens manufactured weapons or joined the fighting lines of WWII. Braceros were instrumental in placing the U.S. as an agricultural power. While Braceros were in the U.S. they encountered poor working and living conditions, not to mention despotism, cruelty, and racism from foremen, ranchers, authorities, and residents of the United States alike. My...

En "Hojas furtivas" encontramos una poesía intensamente vivida, inspirada en la experiencia de un amor hallado y sostenido en la madurez, con toda la soltura y la naturalidad que el tema, otrora tabú, y hoy reconocido como necesidad vital, impone. Las interrogantes sobre el otro, el amor, la muerte, el cuerpo, la belleza y el deseo surgen en estos poemas con acentos existencialistas, en los cuales sus emociones son el valor fundamental. Que el lector sea arrastrado en su lectura por ese cúmulo de sensaciones, vivencias y deseos, es la clara intención de la autora, quien una vez más nos...

'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Lemonade and Black Is King. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds...