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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 ...

Winner of a 2002 American Book Award Winner of the 2002 Colorado Book Award in Poetry "The natural voice at work in the poetry sings of one human life as if it were our own. I loved listening." —Rita Kiefer, author of Nesting Doll "This just may be one of the best books of poetry I have ever read. . . . This is the kind of writing that give poetry a good name." —Mike Nobles, Tulsa World "Abeyta's poetry amazingly captures this struggle with poems that are simultaneously tortured and thankful, celebratory and melancholy, earthly and ethereal. . . . Poet Abeyta beautifully captures the...

De los muchos colombianos que conocen y cantan aquello de “Oye; bajo las ruinas de mis pasiones, / en el fondo de esta alma que ya no alegras, / entre polvo de sueños y de ilusiones / brotan entumecidas mis flores negras”, son pocos los que saben que estos versos hacen parte de la obra poética de Julio Flórez (1867-1923), el más importante de los escritores que conformaron, en plena Guerra de los Mil Días, la famosa Gruta Simbólica. Julio Flórez es quizás el poeta colombiano que con mayor vigor ha calado en los sentimientos de nuestro pueblo. Sobreviviente del romanticismo,...

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