Cuando El Ego Reposa

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...

“Antología de la poesía espectacular es esta cosa heterónima o heteronómica -gay, en todo caso- de inventarse autores para que firmen tus delirios. Alejarse de la propia obra interponiendo culpables significa que uno se gusta mucho, y le da vergüenza, motivo por el cual firma como otro y así puede releerse con placer mayor.”

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 ...

Deseos, Poemas de la vida es un compendio potico para el disfrute de los amantes de la poesa y las conexiones amorosas, es parte integral de la vida en el que se relata a modo de poema, las diferentes situaciones que a muchos nos toca vivir en nuestro diario andar. La poesa toca el alma de quienes la leen y nos ayuda de una forma ms hermosa y simple a comprender el sentir del artfice de las letras y a darnos cuenta que tanto nos conecta con su magia y realidad.