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5 books match the query 'Poemas Poems'

cover of Con las debidas licencias / With Leave and License: Poemas / Poems

Con las debidas licencias / With Leave and License

Poemas / Poems

Leda Schiavo

Swan Isle Press, 2000

'Con las debidas licencias' is the Spanish version of 'imprimatur' or 'nihil obstat,' the Latin used for books published under Catholic censorship. In Spanish, the title plays with the semiotic richness of the word 'license,' meaning 'liberty of action conceded' and 'abuse of freedom.' The poems of With Leave and License strike the imagination with tenderness and nostalgia, powerful in this intelligent vision of life considered as an irreversible journey.
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Filigrana encendida / Filigree of Light

Poemas / Poems

Olivia Maciel

Swan Isle Press, 2002

In Olivia Maciel's Filigree of Light, one enters a lyric of solitude and light, water and wind. Maciel is a poet who has the power to reveal and surprise, bringing one close to things. She approaches the unknown, searching with riddles and reverie.
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cover of La única cosa importante / The Only Thing That Matters: Poemas / Poems

La única cosa importante / The Only Thing That Matters

Poemas / Poems

Amanda Hernández; Translated by Ana Portnoy Brimmer

University of Arizona Press, 2027

The poems featured in this award-winning collection contemplate the realities of the contemporary Puerto Rican experience. Rooted in the archipelago’s landscapes and the emotional topographies of diaspora, this collection confronts the fallout from colonialism while celebrating the sustaining power of friendship, memory, artistry, and collective love.

Holding together a scattered geography, the poems recognize land as both tangible territory and collective imaginary, reflecting on interconnected political, social, and economic crises that shape the intimacies of everyday life. With striking clarity and intimate reverence, Amanda Hernández names the fractures—and the hopes—that shape contemporary Puerto Rican life, ultimately affirming love as the force that endures.

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cover of Las hormigas de oro / Ants of Gold: Poemas / Poems

Las hormigas de oro / Ants of Gold

Poemas / Poems

Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

Swan Isle Press, 2000

For Eduardo Urios-Aparisi poetry is above all, word, spoken word. Word that commits, pronounces, sounds. Word that leaves knots in the voice. For Urios, words play and challenge to play, to conceive the world from different and unsuspected points of view. The poems reflect the senses of the poet; moment to moment, in seduction, abandonment, and loss. It is reality flowing and always fleeing; fragmentary, accelerated, changing and unattainable.
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cover of Luna de cal / Limestone Moon: Poemas / Poems

Luna de cal / Limestone Moon

Poemas / Poems

Olivia Maciel

Swan Isle Press, 2000

In Limestone Moon Olivia Maciel interrogates the inexpressible. Metaphor reaches into a realm of light and darkness to mysteriously converse with the silence enveloping the word. The tinging of this dark light which transcends borders, reveals a vehement and genuine interior, impregnated by the seed of the dream. With almost religious intensity, the poems yield a rare fruit, whose taste evokes the ineffable.
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