Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> American - Hispanic & Latino

Finalist, 2017 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy Collins

"A poet of great heart and brave directness."

--Billy Collins

In Protection Spell Jennifer Givhan explores the guilt, sadness, and freedom of relationships: the sticky love that keeps us hanging on for no reason other than love, the inky place that asks us to continue revising and reimagining, tying ourselves to this life and to each other despite the pain (or perhaps because of it). These poems reassemble safe spaces from the fissures cleaving the speaker's own biracial home and act as witnesses...

Winner of the 2016 National Book Award in Poetry, Daniel Borzutzky's new collection of poetry, The Performance of Becoming Human, draws hemispheric connections between the US and Latin America, specifically touching upon issues relating to border and immigration policies, economic disparity, political violence, and the disturbing rhetoric of capitalism and bureaucracies. To become human is to navigate these borders, including those of institutions, the realities of over- and under-development, and the economies of privatization, in which humans endure state-sanctioned and systemic...

Cynthia Pelayo constructs a narrative in her poetry in response to the work of Jorge Luis Borges that examines the themes and subsequent consequences of insomnia, death, and blindness. There's a visionary quality to her work that dances along the line between the present world that we inhabit and the other world that lingers beyond the veil. Her poetry folds back this blanket of darkness, and shows readers the quiet violence and beauty that hides beneath waiting to be exposed, experienced, and encompassed.

Pelayo showcases this scream of silence through an urban and metaphysical...

-I will call the voice of this poet a 'common' voice... a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing.- --Philip Levine, Ploughshares

This second collection from APR-Honickman winner Tomas Q. Morin explores love gone sideways in the lives of lovers, parents and children, humans and the divine. Patient Zero is filled with voices--of all the people, places, and things that surround a life sick with heartbreak. Doors are the wooden tongues of a house, grocery-store cashiers are gatekeepers to the infinite, and food is the all-powerful life force...

Eric Howard's debut poetry collection reveals the secrets that bind office work to war, Gidget to the damned, the Bible to popular song, mythology to fact, and Los Angeles to Ovid. On a bicycle ride through heavy traffic, it versifies the last days of a failed pimp, gives a tarot reading to warplanes, and deciphers the hieroglyphics of lost empire.

Eric Howard is an LA-based poet and editor. His work has appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Caveat Lector, Conduit, Gulf Stream Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Plainsong, The Sun, and in the anthology Wide Awake:...

PoesIas de Servando CArdenas sobre temas de amor romAntico, familiar, cultural, patriOtico y espiritual. CArdenas fue nativo de Linares, Nuevo Leon, MExico y se emigrO a San Diego, Texas a la edad de 20 aNos donde radicO el resto de su vida. Durante los 1930's y 1940s escribiO poesIas prolIficamente y fueron publicadas en varios periOdicos en MExico, Sur America, el caribe y Tejas. Esta es una colecciOn de sus poemas que existen en una colecciOn familiar.

Alexis Soto RamIrez sabe que el poeta es un almacEn de recuerdos, la memoria que se va destejiendo lentamente, mientras observa la circunstancia de la hormiga, porque el obstAculo que ella enfrenta en su camino, la minUscula piedra que debe rodear, representa nuestro propio conflicto existencial. Pero su tarea es dominar el lenguaje de la ostra y descifrar los cometas en las praderas de la imagen. Nada le es ajeno al poeta, atento a la lAgrima invisible de la hormiga y al sueNo del caballo trotando en una llanura infinita, hacia el sitio inefable donde nos conduce este libro mAgico, que...