Huellas

Transversal takes a disruptive approach to poetic translation, opening up alternative ways of reading as poems get translated or transcreated into entirely new pieces. In this collection, Urayoán Noel masterfully examines his native Puerto Rico and the broader Caribbean as sites of transversal poetics and politics. Featuring Noel's bilingual playfulness, intellect, and irreverent political imagination, Transversal contains personal reflections on love, desire, and loss filtered through a queer approach to form, expanding upon Noel's experiments with self-translation in his celebrated...

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...

Un día soleado, cuando las flores perfuman la campiña y las aves en su vuelo cantan al cielo dando gracias a su creador, no te imaginas que en ese momento has descubierto algo sin darte cuenta, porque desde el día en que naces, Dios ha preparado algo especial para ti. Lo único que tienes que hacer es dejar en libertad el talento dentro de ti, el alma humilde y sencilla entiende el lenguaje de las flores, aves, ríos, estrellas y toda la creación de Dios, sin dejar de mencionar la belleza de la mujer, que es la inspiración de un corazón enamorado plasmando versos por una pluma...

Antología Personal de Poemas Escogidos de poemas publicados en diversos espacios literarios y sociales con prólogo escrito por Oralia Lombera Reyes "Musa peregrina" de México.