La devastación

Francisco Bustos eloquently writes of Colonia Ruiz Cortinez and Barrio San Ysidro, waiting in la linea to be scrutinized by U.S. Customs officials, and of the bi-national journey of living both in the United States and Mxico. His melodic tone defies the fast-paced world of schedules, while being actively engaged in the moment, and then fleeting down another street to encounter another tale. As es la vida qu no?, Bustos says, As es. Michael Cheno Wickert focuses mainly on living in the barrios of Southeast San Diego where life often turns toward violence and suspicion is commonplace. It is a...

En su obra Ni visible, ni palpable (El Ala del Tigre, núm. 01) explora, paradójicamente, la tensión y la complicidad que existe entre lo que no es visible, ni palpable y la materialidad del cuerpo. Paisaje, receptáculo, madeja de sentidos, materia que crece entre otras formas de vida: aquí, con elegancia y agudeza por igual, el cuerpo se vuelve tanto objeto de contemplación como su propia porosidad perceptiva.

Heaviness. Time nullifies the present, it poisons future words. Actions repeat themselves: I breathe the same air, the same place the same memories. Heaviness. In Los dioses sí hablan (The Gods, in Truth, Speak), Claudia Quackenbush voices her encapsulated feelings and experiences that she has enjoyed since her marital romance—maternal expressions, sociopolitical thoughts, even her intimate memories, sending the reader to a world of love which breaks barriers and envelops time. Through her poems, one can envision a love for God and nature, peace, optimism, nostalgia, illusions, desire, as...

Este libro es una compilación de poemas de temática variada y de pequeño tamaño. La intención de los poemas en "Brevedades" es decir lo justo con las palabras correctas, en el momento preciso, sin fastidiar el pensamiento prolongando la lectura con redundancias.