Benjamín Sáenz featured on PBS Art Beat
Benjamin Sáenz has been recognized as one of the most influential voices in the United States, because of his admirable group of novels, short stories, and poems that he continues writing, as well as for his moving and original children books. His appearance as a featured artist on PBS Art Beat is a proof of his importance in literature.
Undocumentaries
In words of Anne Waldman —today, one of the most celebrated American poet and activist—, “Rosa Alcalá’s imagination and language disarmingly penetrate and extend these powerful devices and activating signals. The face we see is hers and our culture’s own.” Without doubt, the power of the lastest book by Alcalá, Undocumentaries, confirmed her opinion.
Summa caligramática
A fines de 2009, José de Piérola entregó su última novela, publicada por la Editorial Norma en el Perú. El título: Summa Caligramática. Pocas veces, en la literatura hispanoamericana, se ha hecho un retrato tan intenso —en ocasiones compasivo, a ratos inclemente— de la psicología torturada de un artista y de los estragos que el exceso de poder, incluso en nombre del amor, causa en los seres humanos.
Insides She Swallowed
In September 2009, West End Press published this first book of poetry by Sasha Pimentel Chacón. Delicate and passionate, the verses have both mind and body, myth and reality, culture and nature, to gather together —in Levi-Strauss’s words— the raw and the cooked of our experiences in order to, perhaps, deepen the knowledge of our own lives.