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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...

El amor es más que un sentimiento, el amor es la causa y el efecto, y es por lo tanto la esencia de la vida. "El amor genuino no lastima y es un hermoso sentimiento por medio del cual podemos motivarnos a alcanzar nuestras metas"

Excerpt from El Nacimiento de Dionisos Si este ensayo en un genero esencialmente poetico no esta escrito en verso, debese a la dificultad de emplear metros castellanos que sugieran las formas poeticas de los griegos. He preferido la prosa, ateniendome al ejem plo de muchos insignes traductores de las tragedias clasicas, uno de ellos no menor poe ta que Leconte de Lisle. Con relacion a las estrofas, antistrofas y epodos, debo recordar, a quienes juzguen absurdas las estrofa: en prosa, que estas palabras significaban origi nariamente los movimientos del coro. En el lenguaje, he tratado de...

"Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisfaerico imagines an alternative to the monolingualism of the U.S. literary and political landscape, and proposes a geo-neuro-political performance attuned to marginalized forms of knowledge, perception, and identity. Poet Urayoaan Noel maps the spaces between and across languages, cities, and bodies, creating a hemispheric poetics that is broadly geopolitical and intimately neurological"--Provided by publisher.