Flores rotas en los jardines conurbanos

Fabulas e historias de estrategas presenta pequeños cuadros en los que el autor se apropia de la metáfora del juego de ajedrez y por medio del lenguaje crea un universo poético en el que explora la relación del individuo frente a la vida en una suerte de partida en la que se indaga el vínculo con la materia, el sueño, el plano metafísico y la resolución del vacío. Con esta obra, Renato Tinajero va moviendo cada ficha del tablero consciente de que "cada acción concreta un acto, y cada acto una posibilidad".

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...

Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words is Lucha CorpiÍs pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in Spanish and expertly translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, the poems fairly bloom off the page in a display of lyric virtuosity. Corpi is the first of the Mexican American poets to explore through deeply personal and intimate feelings potentially explosive political topics, transculturation, the role of women, her commitment to social change, and the grand themes of love and death. Highly sophisticated, enchanting, and well...

La recuperacion de composiciones tradicionales (cantigas, romances, etc.) hace que la poesia de Gil Vicente ofrezca una prodigiosa variedad de formas. Esta edicion reune un gran numero de poemas, adoptando un criterio cronologico que permite establecer relaciones de dependencia entre los textos.