En un puño oscuro

El presente libro es una selección de los textos poéticos de Gabriela Mistral, Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1945. Incluye poemas de todas sus obras (Desolación, Tala, Ternura, Lagar y Poema de Chile) y una “entrevista póstuma” preparada por Alfonso Calderón –quién ha tenido a su cargo la antología– sobre la base de la correspondencia de la Mistral y materiales de archivo. Antología poética de Gabriela Mistral incluye, asimismo, una nota con abundantes y completos datos biográficos de la autora.

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...

Desde pequeña comencé a escribir poesías. Cada palabra, cada frase pensada, llenaba mi mundo de una forma MÁgica. Los sentimientos se mostraban ante mí en todas sus facetas; las pasiones, el deseo de la carne, del espíritu, el amor y el desamor. Es así como nace ?Musa Desnuda.' Te invito a explorar sus páginas para juntos hacer un viaje emocional, lleno de erotismo y sensualidad por los interminables caminos del Corazón.

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...