Los Suenos de San Bernardino

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed—having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere—is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican...

"Espero no decepcionar a nadie, pero estas páginas no tienen un gran porcentaje de Arkano sino que componen algo más complejo, hermoso, aterrador y delirante: Guillermo. No quiero decir que Guillermo y Arkano sean cosas diferentes, más bien son dos caras de una misma moneda. Para el gran público ha sido sencillo conocer la cara más mediática, energética, valiente, innovadora y desafiante de este individuo. Este libro es todo un regalo para aquellos que saben que tras todos los focos mediáticos existe un ser humano que da sentido y hace las veces de soporte a todo este espectáculo....

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

Die in der Anthologie aufgenommenen Autoren treffen sich im Mai 2018 in Berlin und werden über die Texte gemeinsam diskutieren. Wichtig dabei wird sein, wie gelungen die Übersetzungen in die jeweils andere Sprache von den Autoren bewertet werden wird.