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Despertar de esta noche tan larga... La materia se hace sueño, llaga ardiente el pensamiento. (“No viene al encuentro”) Somos luz que despereza entre las sombras, abriendo los ojos al clarear del universo. (“Amanece”)

Cuerpos alternos contiene una selección de cada uno de los libros de poesía publicados por Eugenia Brito. Sus primeros libros, aparecidos en la década de los ochenta, rescatan el contexto de la dictadura y la vuelta a la memoria de Latinoamérica colonizada. El sujeto en el poema se fractura y se convierte en ciudad, continente, virgen, fantasma, personaje teatral y mujer; siempre se trata de alguien que es vencido pero que, en esa derrota, antepone el lenguaje como medio de salvación. “Escribir es resistir”, dice el poeta uruguayo Eduardo Milán, y si hay algo que identifica a...

Known primarily for his poetry of social protest Chicano poet Alurista moves in a new direction in Z Eros, which includes both erotic and political poetry. Moving rapidly between Spanish and English, he introduces readers to a language and a world that exists somewhere between the two cultures and voices. About half of this book is in English and the rest in Spanish.

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 ...