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Download or read book Poemas Selectos written by Óscar Hahn and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
“Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.”—Denise Levertov Champion of the International Poetry Slam, winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the prestigious International Award, Jimmy Santiago Baca has been writing as a mestizo (part Native American, part Mexican) and an outsider ever since he learned to read and write—in English—during a six-year Federal prison sentence when he was in his twenties. Drawing on his rich ethnic heritage and his life growing up in poverty in the Southwestern United States, Baca has a created a body of work which speaks to the disenfranchised by drawing on his experiences as a prisoner, a father, a poet, and by reflecting on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande valley. In response to increased demand for Latino poetry in Spanish, and to thousands of Baca fans who are bilingual, this unique collection contains Spanish translations of Baca’s poetry selected from the volumes Martín and Mediations on the South Valley (1987), Black Mesa Poems (1989), Immigrants in Our Own Land (1990), Healing Earthquakes (2001), C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004), and Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (2007).
Book Synopsis Selected Poems/Poemas Selectos by : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Download or read book Selected Poems/Poemas Selectos written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.”—Denise Levertov Champion of the International Poetry Slam, winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the prestigious International Award, Jimmy Santiago Baca has been writing as a mestizo (part Native American, part Mexican) and an outsider ever since he learned to read and write—in English—during a six-year Federal prison sentence when he was in his twenties. Drawing on his rich ethnic heritage and his life growing up in poverty in the Southwestern United States, Baca has a created a body of work which speaks to the disenfranchised by drawing on his experiences as a prisoner, a father, a poet, and by reflecting on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande valley. In response to increased demand for Latino poetry in Spanish, and to thousands of Baca fans who are bilingual, this unique collection contains Spanish translations of Baca’s poetry selected from the volumes Martín and Mediations on the South Valley (1987), Black Mesa Poems (1989), Immigrants in Our Own Land (1990), Healing Earthquakes (2001), C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004), and Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (2007).
El proceso de escribir poesía se puede definir o catalogar de muchas formas. En una de ellas podríamos decir que consiste en crear belleza. Y ya con esa frase podríamos iniciar debates que nos ocuparían decenas de libros y horas de conversación. ¿No es acaso "belleza" lo que encontramos en obras de arte también terribles? Una amiga, poeta y gran decantadora de la realidad, Txiki, me habló un día de un cuadro, La balsa de la Medusa, pintado por Théodore Géricault en el siglo XIX, en el que un buen número de naúfragos trata de salvarse del hundimiento de un barco. La escena es terrible, dantesca, pero al mismo tiempo la plasticidad, la forma en que se retrata el dramatismo tiene una exactitud, unas luces y sombras, una credibilidad tal que podría considerarse que alcanzan la perfección en cuanto a su belleza. Francisco Muñoz Soler tiene en su poesía el trazo de un pintor que conoce muy bien la técnica por todo lo que lee y ha leído, por todo lo que ha escrito, y al mismo tiempo, como mi amiga poeta que mencionaba antes, también posee la cualidad de saber tamizar, intuir, describir en apenas un esbozo algo que puede estar cargado de inocencia o ser grotesco, cruel o temible. Y es que la vida es o puede ser exactamente así. La poesía la pone encima de la mesa. Si estamos recluídos en nuestras casas contemplando nuestros ombligos y no salimos a ver el mundo, hablaremos de él a través de las opiniones o descripciones sesgadas que alguien ha hecho para nosotros. Francisco no utiliza intermediarios, su poesía nos trae el mundo, nos lo pone encima de nuestra mesa para que descubramos tanto su grandeza como sus numerosos matices, incluso su crueldad. Sus viajes poéticos nunca son monocromos en su faceta de pintor, sino que son sin excepción estallidos de color unas veces más sutiles y otros más llamativos incluso auténticas bofetadas. Al fin y al cabo, es eso lo que se encuentra una persona que viaja con los ojos y los versos bien abiertos: ahí fuera, lejos de las zonas turísticas y las cárceles de extranjeros frente al mar donde todo está incluído, la vida brota como un río no secuestrado por el hormigón. Las personas tienen curiosidad, te lo dan todo o te quitan el aliento con una mirada. Un poeta cualificado para descifrar las realidades, para escuchar y transmitir sin traducir lo que ha visto, es una joya cultural que todos deberíamos preservar. Ese es el valor de lo que hace nuestro poeta. Francisco Muñoz Soler es un notario, pero no de los que esperan parapetados en su oficina a que lleguen las potenciales víctimas de bancos y vendedores a firmar sus hipotecas y transacciones. Él es un notario de la poesía, sale a encontrar los corazones que palpitan en el barro de cualquier país. Es una persona que sabe tratar y aprender de cada persona más allá del saludo protocolario y el gélido apretar de manos. Viajar nos alimenta el alma, igual que la poesía y nos ayuda a ver nuestra desnudez en el mundo con otros prismas. Así, nuestra familia, nuestra ciudad, nuestro entorno adquiere matices nuevos cuando acabamos de alejarnos para volver, en un sístole y diástole que también es el que hace palpitar a nuestros versos. Porque no es cierto que el mundo es solo un rompecabezas de países de colores, con banderas y símbolos; el mundo es una colección gigantesca de grises que van desde el blanco imposible al negro oscuro y el buen poeta, como buen fotógrafo, debe encontrar siempre las herramientas exactas, las palabras, giros, el objetivo, el encuadre, las metáforas, el tiempo justo y la abertura ideal que transmita exactamente lo que estábamos viendo y ya no existe. La poesía es ese instante que ya no existirá nunca, pero que podemos releer siempre, crecer un poco para no ser jamás la misma persona que abrió el libro instantes antes... Juan Navidad poeta y editor
Book Synopsis Poemas Selectos. Selected Poems by : Francisco Munoz Soler
Download or read book Poemas Selectos. Selected Poems written by Francisco Munoz Soler and published by Costa Literaria Ediciones. This book was released on 2017 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El proceso de escribir poesía se puede definir o catalogar de muchas formas. En una de ellas podríamos decir que consiste en crear belleza. Y ya con esa frase podríamos iniciar debates que nos ocuparían decenas de libros y horas de conversación. ¿No es acaso "belleza" lo que encontramos en obras de arte también terribles? Una amiga, poeta y gran decantadora de la realidad, Txiki, me habló un día de un cuadro, La balsa de la Medusa, pintado por Théodore Géricault en el siglo XIX, en el que un buen número de naúfragos trata de salvarse del hundimiento de un barco. La escena es terrible, dantesca, pero al mismo tiempo la plasticidad, la forma en que se retrata el dramatismo tiene una exactitud, unas luces y sombras, una credibilidad tal que podría considerarse que alcanzan la perfección en cuanto a su belleza. Francisco Muñoz Soler tiene en su poesía el trazo de un pintor que conoce muy bien la técnica por todo lo que lee y ha leído, por todo lo que ha escrito, y al mismo tiempo, como mi amiga poeta que mencionaba antes, también posee la cualidad de saber tamizar, intuir, describir en apenas un esbozo algo que puede estar cargado de inocencia o ser grotesco, cruel o temible. Y es que la vida es o puede ser exactamente así. La poesía la pone encima de la mesa. Si estamos recluídos en nuestras casas contemplando nuestros ombligos y no salimos a ver el mundo, hablaremos de él a través de las opiniones o descripciones sesgadas que alguien ha hecho para nosotros. Francisco no utiliza intermediarios, su poesía nos trae el mundo, nos lo pone encima de nuestra mesa para que descubramos tanto su grandeza como sus numerosos matices, incluso su crueldad. Sus viajes poéticos nunca son monocromos en su faceta de pintor, sino que son sin excepción estallidos de color unas veces más sutiles y otros más llamativos incluso auténticas bofetadas. Al fin y al cabo, es eso lo que se encuentra una persona que viaja con los ojos y los versos bien abiertos: ahí fuera, lejos de las zonas turísticas y las cárceles de extranjeros frente al mar donde todo está incluído, la vida brota como un río no secuestrado por el hormigón. Las personas tienen curiosidad, te lo dan todo o te quitan el aliento con una mirada. Un poeta cualificado para descifrar las realidades, para escuchar y transmitir sin traducir lo que ha visto, es una joya cultural que todos deberíamos preservar. Ese es el valor de lo que hace nuestro poeta. Francisco Muñoz Soler es un notario, pero no de los que esperan parapetados en su oficina a que lleguen las potenciales víctimas de bancos y vendedores a firmar sus hipotecas y transacciones. Él es un notario de la poesía, sale a encontrar los corazones que palpitan en el barro de cualquier país. Es una persona que sabe tratar y aprender de cada persona más allá del saludo protocolario y el gélido apretar de manos. Viajar nos alimenta el alma, igual que la poesía y nos ayuda a ver nuestra desnudez en el mundo con otros prismas. Así, nuestra familia, nuestra ciudad, nuestro entorno adquiere matices nuevos cuando acabamos de alejarnos para volver, en un sístole y diástole que también es el que hace palpitar a nuestros versos. Porque no es cierto que el mundo es solo un rompecabezas de países de colores, con banderas y símbolos; el mundo es una colección gigantesca de grises que van desde el blanco imposible al negro oscuro y el buen poeta, como buen fotógrafo, debe encontrar siempre las herramientas exactas, las palabras, giros, el objetivo, el encuadre, las metáforas, el tiempo justo y la abertura ideal que transmita exactamente lo que estábamos viendo y ya no existe. La poesía es ese instante que ya no existirá nunca, pero que podemos releer siempre, crecer un poco para no ser jamás la misma persona que abrió el libro instantes antes... Juan Navidad poeta y editor
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Book Synopsis Poemas Escolhidos/Selected Poems by : Jack Valente de Almeida
Download or read book Poemas Escolhidos/Selected Poems written by Jack Valente de Almeida and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No About the Book information available at this time.
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original contributions from thirteen Espada scholars, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his body of writing. Acknowledged Legislator accomplishes this task in three fundamental ways: by providing readers with background information on the poet’s life and work; offering an examination into the subject matter and dominant themes that are frequently contained in his writing; and finally, by advocating, in a variety of ways, for why we should be reading, discussing, and teaching the Espada canon. Divided into four distinct sections that modulate through several theoretical frames—from Espada’s attention to resistance poetics and concerns for historical memory to his oppositional critique of neoliberalism and support for a class consciousness grounded in labor rights—Acknowledged Legislator offers a cohesive, forward-thinking interpretive statement of the poet’s vision and proposes a critical (re)assessment for how we read Espada, now and in the future.
Book Synopsis Acknowledged Legislator by : Edward J. Carvalho
Download or read book Acknowledged Legislator written by Edward J. Carvalho and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original contributions from thirteen Espada scholars, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his body of writing. Acknowledged Legislator accomplishes this task in three fundamental ways: by providing readers with background information on the poet’s life and work; offering an examination into the subject matter and dominant themes that are frequently contained in his writing; and finally, by advocating, in a variety of ways, for why we should be reading, discussing, and teaching the Espada canon. Divided into four distinct sections that modulate through several theoretical frames—from Espada’s attention to resistance poetics and concerns for historical memory to his oppositional critique of neoliberalism and support for a class consciousness grounded in labor rights—Acknowledged Legislator offers a cohesive, forward-thinking interpretive statement of the poet’s vision and proposes a critical (re)assessment for how we read Espada, now and in the future.
This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by : Jeremy Noel-Tod
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English written by Jeremy Noel-Tod and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
A bilingual edition of a leading Caribbean poet in a vivid new translation. Although today Luis Pales Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the most important poets out of Latin America."
Book Synopsis Poesía Selecta by : Luis Palés Matos
Download or read book Poesía Selecta written by Luis Palés Matos and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual edition of a leading Caribbean poet in a vivid new translation. Although today Luis Pales Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the most important poets out of Latin America."
Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border. Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burden of all that has come before: her husband’s murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at the border, then rape and abuse at the hands of ICE, yet persevering: “I keep walking/carrying you in my thoughts,” she repeats, as she wills her boy to know she is on a quest to find him.
Book Synopsis When I Walk Through That Door, I Am by : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Download or read book When I Walk Through That Door, I Am written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border. Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burden of all that has come before: her husband’s murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at the border, then rape and abuse at the hands of ICE, yet persevering: “I keep walking/carrying you in my thoughts,” she repeats, as she wills her boy to know she is on a quest to find him.
Acclaimed poet Jimmy Santiago Baca knows something is wrong with contemporary society. He’s afraid “that the whole network / that connects us / and society together / is going to collapse / that our lives / will be dependent on tiny / little blue wires / that can’t shake my hand / or share my joy, / that won’t challenge the police / to stop beating a brown man / or can’t do even something as small / and gentle as smile.” In this collection of new poems, Baca expresses his sense of responsibility to use his gift for the greater good. “If not me, then who / speaks to money, power, privilege / if not / an ordinary man / then who?” He chastises those who use their connections to benefit themselves at the expense of the impoverished, imprisoned and undocumented. Frequently, he takes aim at poets and politicians who put their lucrative positions ahead of their constituents: “Governor, if you choose a career / where you have to ignore the truth / and pillage the unfortunate, at least / outlaw automatic weapons.” While many of these poems are stinging rebukes against the wealthy and powerful and their disregard for children living in poverty and the environment, others are beautiful odes to his indigenous roots. There are buffalo with their gentle hearts, sacred places where he prays to his ancestors and the plants growing on steep mountainsides that give “me courage to keep clinging to hope and to learn / life’s most important lesson / practice how to lean in life so as not to fall.” Baca writes urgently about the most important themes of our generation, including education, justice, the environment and even the coronavirus. Ironically, he notes, “the enemy didn’t come at us crossing borders, / swinging machetes and machine guns.” No, nature herself has come to clean house, to give “Mother Earth a reprieve from our greed.”
Book Synopsis No Enemies by : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Download or read book No Enemies written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed poet Jimmy Santiago Baca knows something is wrong with contemporary society. He’s afraid “that the whole network / that connects us / and society together / is going to collapse / that our lives / will be dependent on tiny / little blue wires / that can’t shake my hand / or share my joy, / that won’t challenge the police / to stop beating a brown man / or can’t do even something as small / and gentle as smile.” In this collection of new poems, Baca expresses his sense of responsibility to use his gift for the greater good. “If not me, then who / speaks to money, power, privilege / if not / an ordinary man / then who?” He chastises those who use their connections to benefit themselves at the expense of the impoverished, imprisoned and undocumented. Frequently, he takes aim at poets and politicians who put their lucrative positions ahead of their constituents: “Governor, if you choose a career / where you have to ignore the truth / and pillage the unfortunate, at least / outlaw automatic weapons.” While many of these poems are stinging rebukes against the wealthy and powerful and their disregard for children living in poverty and the environment, others are beautiful odes to his indigenous roots. There are buffalo with their gentle hearts, sacred places where he prays to his ancestors and the plants growing on steep mountainsides that give “me courage to keep clinging to hope and to learn / life’s most important lesson / practice how to lean in life so as not to fall.” Baca writes urgently about the most important themes of our generation, including education, justice, the environment and even the coronavirus. Ironically, he notes, “the enemy didn’t come at us crossing borders, / swinging machetes and machine guns.” No, nature herself has come to clean house, to give “Mother Earth a reprieve from our greed.”
Jimmy Santiago Baca, one of the foremost poets in America today, collaborates with two literacy professionals to present a teaching tool that includes curricular activities and probing questions crafted to help students heal through writing. Each exercise reinforces the theme that self-esteem borne from unique expression will improve student enjoyment and academic achievement.
Book Synopsis Feeding the Roots of Self-Expression and Freedom by : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Download or read book Feeding the Roots of Self-Expression and Freedom written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Santiago Baca, one of the foremost poets in America today, collaborates with two literacy professionals to present a teaching tool that includes curricular activities and probing questions crafted to help students heal through writing. Each exercise reinforces the theme that self-esteem borne from unique expression will improve student enjoyment and academic achievement.