Pomas Truncas

La poesía es abrigo y refugio contra la insoportable intrascendencia con la que nos apuñala la frialdad del tiempo. En este libro giran los poemas, en libertad, en el universo de fascinación en el que se convierte la existencia paradójica de un actor de su propia vida. Su amor correspondido emite vibración y credulidad. Pero también es capaz de convertirse en oropel y en negación en el lecho del engaño y del abandono. Vive un mundo extraño, fantasioso, absurdo a veces; un mundo de presencias y de ausencias; persistente y por eso humano; puede que disimulado y disperso. Quizás nos...

Conceived as one poem, Myung Mi Kim's Dura is a whirling experimental symphony of images, forms and rhythms assembled and juxtaposed to translate the experience and gestures of the Korean immigrant woman surviving in America at the end of the twentieth century. Its language negotiates a past -- "How was it to be the first arrivals in rows and columns" -- as well as a present -- "A perceiver without a state", and has already gained Kim recognition as among the most moving and important "translators" in contemporary poetry.

La casa de la poesía, entra y sale por lo recovecos del habla. Carmen Berenguer desliza voces que configuran pedacitos de historias que se cuentan por medio de una poesía narrada. Registra a Valparaíso lleno de señaléticas que indican desplazamientos por sus cerros y bares, por las noches furiosas donde poesía y poetas son la misma imagen. Un habla marginalizada que balbucea a ratos territorios propios del desecho oficial. Allí la subalternidad de Brenda se llena de múltiples lucecitas que apenas iluminan la noche bohemia. Sólo los labios manchados con rojo van dando cuenta de una...

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...