El Todo Es Poesía

Loving poetry is a symbol of indolence, a challenge that requires solitude and silence, sacrifice and permanent devotion. All that a human being needs to live can be found in poetry, the artistic genre par excellence. El libro de los indolentes is a journey towards an unknown place where we inhabit, each day, a fortified but unwalled space, a river that gushes truth.

Una antología que recoge algunas de las mejores poesías religiosas de Jacint Verdaguer. Las más de cincuenta poesías que conforman este volumen han sido seleccionadas y traducidas al castellano por Juan Laguía Lliteras. El libro está dividido en tres secciones: Jesús, La Virgen y Los Santos. Una colección de poesía sencilla, íntima y espiritual, que mejor representa la obra de Verdaguer. Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902) fue cura y uno de los principales impulsores de la poesía catalana del siglo XIX. Con diez años ingresó en un seminario, donde cursó sus estudios eclesiásticos. En...

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence--published in a bilingual format--written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas. Thunderweavers is a story of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It deals with the...

The poems in this collection mix English and Spanish while tracing the ?kool logic? of culture in transit. Scuttling from free verse and limericks to d?cimas and terza rima, the poet is our guide on a transcultural tour through downtowns, suburbs, stockyards, shantytowns, power lunches, HMOs, open mics, and open sores. Fusing pop riffs, Beat whimsy, Nuyorican punch lines, and modernist deadpan, the poet in these pages is also the comedian, the visionary, the j?baro, the agitator, the theorist, the lounge singer, the slacker ? Puerto Rican poet and performer Urayo?n Noel has coined a new sort...