Las voces del tiempo

This book, "De Mi Mente" (Spanish for from my mind), is a book of over 3,000 lyrics of which approximate 2,100 are written for a man to sing and the latter 900 are written for a woman to sing. All songs are interchangeable. Some of the songs are love songs but the lyrics are not written for political and religious reasons. The reader will have the option to arrange each song according to his or her taste of which each and every song can be arranged in a bolero, ranchera, cumbia; etc. The reader can choose at their choice of which song inspires them and in they are not obligated to make any...

A la manera de un lienzo del barroco neerlandés Pieter Claesz, la colección de poemas que integra Naturaleza muerta reúne una serie de retratos simbólicos sencillos y oscuramente deslumbrantes. Animales, insectos y plantas; esculturas de dioses griegos o héroes de la antigüedad clásica, objetos tales como un maniquí o el mapa de una ciudad, conforman un breve poemario que brilla por la sencillez y la destreza de su ejecución, armado a la manera de los nocturnos bodegones de los siglos XVI y XVII y lleno de erudición clásica pero accesible a todo público, profano y exigente.

La obra de Scorza se agiganta al paso del tiempo. Sus relatos, que parten muchas veces de hechos reales, sin desdeñar el mito y la fantasía, no sólo muestran la calidad literaria de su autor, sino que permanecen como testimonios de una realidad latinoamericana.

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada, featuring an essay by Kristin Dykstra. "Omar Perez Lopez (1964-) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba. A former journalist, Perez has explored a wide array of literary genres, particularly poetry, translation, and the essay...At the center of SOMETHING OF THE SACRED is the exploration of displacement. Perez sees poetic metaphor as 'the subtle displacement of something objective'...His apparent strangeness, particularly in his varied uses of Zen traditions, ...