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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...

"An analysis of Eros as the basic element underlying the direction of the poet's work : his desire for transcendence and artistic perfection. Supported mainly by a culturally and psychoanalytically oriented methodology, it is a systematic study of the evolution of the theme, particularly of erotic imagery and symbolism, across the entire poetic corpus"--Publisher.

Todo comienza y todo acaba. Entre los puntos alfa y omega de nuestra vida podemos precisar dos etapas: una creciente y otra decreciente. Son las dos mitades que caracterizan todo proceso biológico. La ida crece hasta llegar al límite del proceso evolutivo. Luego comienza la involución. Como las fases de la luna: creciente, luna llena, decreciente, luna nueva. Así la vida.

"Hay en cada poema una clara voluntad de iluminar el lenguaje y el mundo por medio de una reflexion moral sobre nuestra condicion: sus textos consiguen levantar mecanismos cristalinos a traves de los cuales podemos ver, sentir y pensar la realidad circundante."