Extramuros

Excerpt from La Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; ...

Este libro no esta escrito, este libro no esta parido. Fue tejido por un insecto de colores que intenta tapar la culpa de navegar profundo y generar preguntas entre dos mundos, unos más imaginarios que otros, pero que siempre están adentro, más adentro incluso que del espejo que intenta imitar. Acá Kafka te golpea y obliga a sangrar en una cabeza ajena.

Una madrugada... hace mucho tiempo, se clarifico para mi esta historia... desesperadamente esperaba la llegada de ella, no conocia sus formas, solo sabia que vendria, que cuando este con ella lo sabria... Y ella llego... y nos maravillamos mutuamente contandonos nuestras extranas y magicas anoranzas de otros tiempos... Para mi es un placer contarles nuestra historia en formato de prosas y poemas...

This expanded edition of Ruben Medina's 2010 chapbook Nomadic Nation / Nacion Nomada includes a new introduction by the author about his poetics as well as new translations of work originally written in Spanish. Composed in English, Spanish and Spanglish, these important poems reflect on the lives of immigrants/emigrants, our restless spirits, and the human journey: "We are at the periphery of the center / and at the center of the periphery / at the same time." Writes Medina in "Una poetica norteada" "There is no purity in language. There never has been. ... Interference can at times simply...