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This bilingual anthology, Cantos to Encounters, is a selection of the poetic works of Luis Alberto Ambroggio, the highly-respected Argentinian-American poet who currently represents Hispanic writing in the United States. The poems quickly reveal how the encounters related to the poet serve as symbols for numerous topics and people: for war, family, women, mythology, immigrants; and for poets such as Darío, García Lorca, Vallejo, Whitman, and Benedetti, as well as for himself. These poems place their author between the year 1987, when he was starting his poetic journey with some poems from...

La vida es un pozo en cuyo fondo yacen los sedimentos que un día nos habrán de responder a la Pregunta, esa interrogación que nace del fondo de nuestra vida espiritual. Digamos que un día existió Jacqueline, digamos que no ha muerto, o tal vez fue luz de estrella que había llegado a lo más oscuro de Alfredo, ojo blanco del ciego. Su poesía, aunque a veces dolida, nos ofrece instantes, sombra sangrada en el corazón del misterio. Sublimar el amor es una de las formas de ocultar las impurezas de la tierra, nos dice el poeta, pues tiene fe en que, en medio de la nieve, antes de que el...

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.

*Nota al lector: Este libro está publicado en español e inglés simultáneamente.•De amores intensos, de estrofas y versos es un viaje a través del tiempo entre ilusiones y tristezas, felicidad y desamor, recorridos a través del camino de vida de un adolescente, un joven y ahora un adulto; que ha convertido sus desdichas amorosas en tristes y hermosos poemas de amor.*Note to the reader: This book is published in both English and Spanish simultaneously.•Of intense love, of stanzas and verses is a journey through time between illusions and sorrows, happiness and heartbreak, traveling...