La sombra que pasa

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 ...

لا أَحَدَ يُمْكِنُهُ هَدم مُعجزةِ الشِّعْر: لا القَنَّاصونَ، لا اللصوصُ، لا المُتسكّعون. لُذْتُ بالصَّمتِ في قشورِ بَتَلاتٍ مُخْمَلِيَّة تلك التي تُشكِّلُ دَوَّامَةً من الورودِ كي أُحَرِّكَ المياهَ الرَّاكِدَةَ. الشُّعَراءُ كما البَحَّارةُ، مُترامونَ في الوِحدةِ، لدينا دوماً ما نرويهِ. تاريخُ حياتنا يَكتسبُ صِفةً...

Este es un libro de poemas desnudos, caricias sudadas, delirios mutantes, corazones clandestinos, una cartografía de la vulnerabilidad humana.

This bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poetry reflects a broad continuum of styles and offers generous selections from the writings of 20 poets. "I can't recommend it highly enough."--Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "The Devil's Highway."