Danzando con el Silencio - Florilegios.

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...

"Lo de Mancilla no es solo un texto literario. Su crear se desliza a otros registros visuales y de lenguas - geografías. Es una etnografía poético - visual de ese mundo que nos han robado. Todos sus puños / todas sus letras tallan en el aire un tratado de cine en el que cada plano visual sirve para medir otra arista perdida / olvidada del mundo - vida. Así, lo suyo deviene en un filme - poesía compuesto por imágenes en las que la palabra deviene en gesto, el gesto en acción y la acción en un plano continuo biselado en mil fotogramas cristalinos. Este registro de la vida se proyecta...

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 ...