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John Torres (PR Books #3)

February 1, 2011 by E. Rowan

Fiebre de Fresno by John Torres (Terranova Editores, 2009). Available here. John Torres (1977-) is a young, contemporary poet, therapist and professor. His first book, Fracturas del Devenir, was published by Isla Negra in 2006 (reviewed here). This is his second collection. What’s interesting is that with younger poets like John, they’re all over the web. The first poet in this series, though more established, had very limited web presence. Of course, with younger poets, it’s more or less the same stuff […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: John Torres, poetry, Puerto Rico

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Néstor Barreto (PR Books #2)

January 31, 2011 by E. Rowan

Sí by Néstor Barreto (Terranova, 2006). Néstor Barreto (1952—) is described on one of his online bios as a heuristic poet, a word I had to look up. It means experimentally inventive, something to do with trial and error more or less, and that seems to be a great description for this poet. He has five books of poems currently available (this is the latest) and one forthcoming from a series called Colleción Maravilla (book trailer here). He’s the founder of […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: experimental poetry, poetry, prose poetry, Puerto Rico

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José María Lima (PR Books #1)

January 28, 2011 by E. Rowan

Rendijas by José María Lima (Cuadernos La Torre, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2001). There is a preview available on Google books here. José María Lima (1936-2009) was a poet, mathematician, painter, Marxist, activist and professor. The bulk of his work remained unpublished until the end of his life, when the University of Puerto Rico commissioned the selection and publication in 2001 of this book , Rendijas [roughly Slits or Cracks or Gaps]. His first poems were published […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Clemente Soto Velez, Francisco Matos Paoli, José María Lima, poetry, Puerto Rico

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Travel Report: Books from Puerto Rico

January 27, 2011 by E. Rowan

I just returned from several weeks of travel which took me to three major Latino Caribbean cities: New York, San Juan and Santo Domingo (in order of travel, not importance). Part of the trip was to visit family and introduce my husband to the tradition of the Tres Reyes Fiesta (kind of a big deal for my family in Puerto Rico). Part of the trip was funded by a generous grant from the University of Iowa Study Abroad Office to support my […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: poetry, Puerto Rico, travel

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Subversive Poetry

January 20, 2011 by E. Rowan

So I’m not slacking in my book-a-day goal, though yes, I’m slacking on posting here. The book I finished a few days ago was Martín Espada’s The Lover of a Subversive is Also a Subversive. It was (as I expected it would be) extraordinary. Martín is, for anyone who doesn’t know, an incredibly prolific contemporary Puerto Rican poet who writes in English and teaches at UMass Amherst. He started his professional life as a lawyer, and in the first essay […]

Categories: Poetry, Reviews • Tags: Martín Espada, poetry, political poetry, Puerto Rico, reviews

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Dominican Literature

January 8, 2010 by E. Rowan

A good friend of mine who is dominicana and I have been talking a lot about translating a book or few from the DR together. She’s not a literature person, but she has the intimate knowledge (or access to it) of the literary landscape that I don’t have. I think this all started on a field trip to the stacks at Widener last year to scour the Latin American poetry section for Puerto Rican poetry. We found not that much […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Azul Editions, caribbean, Dominican Republic, poetry, Puerto Rico, translation

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