La sombra que pasa

En este libro el autor presenta una serie de escritos sencillos concebidos en circunstancias cotidianas del diario vivir. Surgen de una imaginación alimentada de los enigmas de la naturaleza, las artes y las relaciones humanas. Es una colección de memorias, experiencias y vivencias contadas desde una manera poética para disfrutarse en todo momento. El volumen recoge mucho de la imaginación que nos hace soñar de lo mejor de las experiencias humanas que a diario podemos vivir. En estos escritos se revive las posibilidades que en la vida tenemos por hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

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...

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada, featuring an essay by Kristin Dykstra. "Omar Perez Lopez (1964-) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba. A former journalist, Perez has explored a wide array of literary genres, particularly poetry, translation, and the essay...At the center of SOMETHING OF THE SACRED is the exploration of displacement. Perez sees poetic metaphor as 'the subtle displacement of something objective'...His apparent strangeness, particularly in his varied uses of Zen traditions, ...

The love for my parents has led me to write this book, which is a ballad to infinity. A way to tell those who still have them alive, not to miss a single chance to be with them or to give them all the hugs that I am missing.