I Am Still Me

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...

El primer poemario de Shuarma, artista, vocalista de Elefantes y uno de los compositores más populares del panorama pop nacional. «Los textos que componen este libro persiguen la voluntad de alejarte de la realidad, llevarte a otro lugar y sugerirte nuevas visiones, no las mías, sino las que te surjan a ti a través de mis propuestas. Yo enciendo la mecha y tu explotas. Aunque a decir verdad eres tú quien enciende la mecha al decidirte a leer. Siempre comienzas tú». El error es un maestro; crear, la libertad más absoluta. De la magia de lo incompleto, de la sabiduría que se esconde...

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

Poesía —sobre las tormentas y tormentos de la existencia— que navega entre el realismo y el surrealismo, la ironía, la paradoja y lo tragicómico.