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Inspiration (Vol. III) is another gift from Guatemalan poet Germán Toledo, in which we can yet again appreciate his verses full of love, passion, tenderness, profound lessons, wise advice, reflections on life's mysteries, and more. In this volume, this prolific author concludes his trilogy of inspirations, to the delight of poetry lovers.

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 ...

Texto vertiginoso, acelerado, rítmico y alucinante. Como toda la escritura de Carmen Berenguer, el Mi Lai es una propuesta para remembrar, radical e innovadora. Un relato de huachos, de rufianes, de autores y emperatrices, una hibridez de prosa y poesía, de citas y autoficción, se trata de una picaresca ubicada en los principios de los años 70. Mi Lai es un libro de viajes, de personajes en fuga, de voces extrañas, de cantos, de choques entre lenguas. Un trabajo con la voz y el viaje, con el asma y el aire, Mi Lai recorre las Américas y llega al Norte para señalar el arte de la...

“Cansador intrabajable” -como se autodefine- de la palabra, Bertoni vuelve al rescate de lo efímero, lo nimio, y lo eleva a epifanía e iluminación: “Estaba en un paradero / Me bajé y estuve a su lado / Hastaque tomó su micro / A más / No puedo aspirar”.