Obras

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence--published in a bilingual format--written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas. Thunderweavers is a story of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It deals with the...

Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico—few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes major international writers like Alberto ...

El poeta como náufrago en una isla desierta. La poesía como herramienta de conversación desde la soledad. El poema como mensaje en una botella que se lanza al mar para que algún día pueda ser recogido por algún lector.

Este primer libro consta de 8 secciones, las cuales son las siguientes: Seccin 1 - Anecdotario Potico 2 - Versos Filosficos 3 - Reflexiones del Autor 4 - Reflexiones Polticas del Autor 5 - Versos de Amor 6 - Versos Religiosos 7 - Versos Dispersos 8 - Versos a la Familia y a Amigos Este libro, como indica sus secciones detalladas arriba, tiene varios propsitos enfocados a diferentes temas importantes que cubren una gama de ejemplos y experiencias que tienen como finalidad enriquecer o nutrir a aquellas personas que tengan la oportunidad de adquirirlo. Es una introduccin original del autor que...