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La suavecita by Lupe Mendez - Poems
To love a country as if you’ve lost one: 1968, my mother leaves Cuba for America, a scene I imagine as if standing in her place—one foot inside a plane destined for a country she knew only as a name, a color on a map, or glossy photos from drugstore magazines, her other foot anchored to the platform of her patria, her hand clutched around one suitcase, taking only what she needs most: hand-colored photographs of her family, her wedding veil, the doorknob of her house, a jar of dirt from her...
"Un rey en Nueva York", la crítica de Charles Chaplin a una sociedad que le dio la espalda
Noticias destacadas de Cultura CulturaHace 8 minutosPor: Jaime Manrique Un rey en Nueva York fue, para Charles Chaplin, la penúltima película y la primera filmada en el Reino Unido. Fue dirigida, producida y protagonizada por él mismo y es una declaración de principios, un acto de resistencia contra una sociedad que, cegada por el odio, fue capaz de arremeter contra sus propios ídolos sin importar las consecuencias.
Like This Afternoon Forever
For the last 50 years, the Colombian drug cartels, various insurgent groups, and the government have fought over the control of the drug traffic, in the process destroying vast stretches of the Amazon, devastating Indian communities, and killing tens of thousands of homesteaders caught in the middle of the conflict.
Colombia’s Gay Truth Teller
June 6, 2019 / Arts / Books Jaime Manrique’s new novel explores forbidden love in a repressive age Enlarge this image CHRISTOPHER MURRAY Novelist Jaime Manrique, who last month received the prestigious Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. BY CHRISTOPHER MURRAY Community News Group The Colombian-American writer Jaime Manrique, author of the powerful new novel “Like This Afternoon Forever,” is both an imp and an iconoclast.
Looking Back on 2017: Film & Television by - @BOMBmagazine
Hannah StamlerWriter Sean Baker’s The Florida Project follows a six-year-old, Moonee, who lives in a seedy motel on one of many strip-mall-lined roads that feed into Disney World. The motel is called the Magic Castle but possesses little discernible magic beyond its dazzling paint job, a dark shade of lilac that pops against blue Floridian skies, and the obliviousness of its kid residents, a sort of operational magic. For the adults, the motel is a last resort.
by Clarice Lispector
We had not been mates for very long. It was only during our last year at school that we really got to know each other well. And from then on we became inseparable. For some time we had both felt the need of a friend in whom we could confide. Our friendship soon reached the point where we could keep nothing to ourselves: one of us would telephone the other immediately to arrange a meeting. After a good chat, we both felt much better.
The Sky Over My Mother’s House
translated by Edith Grossman I’ve spent a whole afternoon looking at photographs. I’ve accumulated so many in my life— but there are two in particular that interest me. Both are sepia by now, I don’t know where they were taken, and I’m not in either of them. The first is a classic composition of nine people. My mother’s family. My grandparents, two uncles, four aunts, and a woman I don’t know or have forgotten.
The Sky Over My Mother’s House
Jaime Manrique was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1949. He began writing poetry in his teens, and at age seventeen he moved to Florida with his mother and sister. He received a BA from the University of South Florida in 1972. In 1975 Manrique was awarded Colombia’s “Eduardo Cote Lamus” National Poetry Award for his debut poetry collection, Los adoradores de la luna (Instituto de Cultura y Bellas Artes, 1977).
by Carmen Boullosa
Roberto Bolaño belongs to the most select group of Latin-American novelists. Chile of the coup d’état , Mexico City in the 1970s, and the reckless youth of poets are some of his frequent subjects, but he also takes up other themes: César Vallejo’s deathbed, the hardships endured by unknown authors, life at the periphery. Born in Chile in 1953, he spent his teenage years in Mexico and moved to Spain at the end of the ’70s. As a poet, he founded the Infrarealist movement with Mario Santiago.
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