PIEL TRANSITADA

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...

En 1987 una joven profesora de literatura japonesa, Machi Tawara, desató una apasionada polémica en Japón por la publicación de un libro de tankas, bajo el provocador título de Aniversario de la ensalada. La joven poeta se había atrevido a subvertir las temáticas tradicionales e introducir en sus 434 composiciones asuntos cotidianos, aspectos de la vida japonesa moderna y alusiones tan “antipoéticas” como referencias al basebal, a canciones del gusto de los jóvenes y productos de consumo habitual.

In 1912, from Ronda, Spain, the great Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote about the lasting impact Toledo, Spain, had made on him the previous month. He was fascinated by the city and the work of El Greco. This book presents Rilke's lyrical impressions alongside fantastic illustrations by Eva Vásquez, who spent a year in the streets and squares of Toledo shaping her vision of the city into images. Two different, complementary perspectives of Toledo come together to encourage the discovery—or rediscovery—of the wonderful “Imperial City.”

Three stories in verse about a chicken that ate a ball of yarn and hatched chicks wearing sweaters, two farmers who could not tell their pigs apart and a mysterious talking dog accompanied by a mute cat. Based on traditional Huasteca poetry of Mexico.