{"product_id":"poems-of-mijail-lamas-mario-bojorquez-ali-calderon-americas-series-2","title":"Poems of Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórquez \u0026 Alí Calderón","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórquez \u0026amp; Alí Calderón\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e(Americas Series 2)\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from Spanish by Mario Licón Cabrera. \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Gustavo Osorio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis second collection in Vagabond’s Americas Series presents a unique \u003ci\u003etrío\u003c\/i\u003e of voices from contemporary Mexico giving English-language readers a taste of the vibrancy of Mexican poetry after Octavio Paz. Gathering together translations by Mario Licón Cabrera from Mijail Lamas’s \u003ci\u003eCountersummer\u003c\/i\u003e, Mario Bojórquez’s \u003ci\u003eTo Speak Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e and Alí Calderón’s \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondences\u003c\/i\u003e, this is an essential introduction to twenty-first century Mexican poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Mexico has a thriving, vast and rich poetic ecosystem. There is the immersive, Neo-Baroque writing of Coral Bracho; the narrative poetry of Tedi López Mills; Mónica Nepote’s visceral, body imagery; the intimate verses of Nadia Escalante; Gabriel Zaid, Óscar Cid de León, Hernán Bravo Varela, Carla Faesler; the list goes on. This anthology provides a limited but satisfying taste, eclectic in its choices, and highly recommended.' \u003cspan\u003eGabriel García Ochoa reviews\u003cem\u003e Poems of Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórques \u0026amp; Alí Calderón \u003c\/em\u003ein \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/ochoa-cabrera-lamas-bojorques-calderon\/\" href=\"https:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/ochoa-cabrera-lamas-bojorques-calderon\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCordite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The poems from \u003ci\u003eCountersummer\u003c\/i\u003e seem to be built around one scene: the poet, far away from his native city, writes about his links with the past – childhood, family, those streets in sepia ... a cycle of poems about the difficulties of nostalgia, that, in the motive of heat, condenses a lyrical examination of an inner world.”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Geney Beltrán (La gaceta, México)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In Mario Bojórquez the immateriality of the symbol becomes tangible, the rhythm is charged with spirituality like a flame suspended over the mouth of time, his chants comes and goes from Nature to Men. The poet of \u003ci\u003eTo Speak Shadows \u003c\/i\u003euses his own flesh to raise this offering to the highest dream.”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLuis David Palacios (Andraval, México)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Alí Calderón, breaks frequently with language and syntax, especially in his poems of love and lack of love, but he keeps in mind that this work of destruction doesn’t stop his writing to become an arrow that pierces the readers’ heart. In his notable love poems there’s the sadness that diminishes, the pain that tears apart or brakes, the humiliation of failure, the defeat that at the end of the day is the only thing worthwhile. \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondences\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of splendid maturity”     \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarco Antonio Campos (Visor Libros, España)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMijail Lamas \u003c\/b\u003e(Culiacán, Sinaloa. 1979) Poet, translator and literary critic. He has published three collections of poetry. In 2012 he was awarded the Clemencia Isaura Poetry Prize for his book Trevas (Canción del navegante de sí mismo).  He is considered amongst one of the most relevant forty young poets writing in Spanish today. He was the Senior editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Río Grande Review\u003c\/i\u003e, University of  El Paso, Texas, and is one of the editors of \u003ci\u003eCírculo de Poesía\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry has been translated into several languages and included in many anthologies, both national and word wide. The poems included here are from his book \u003ci\u003eContraverano \/ Countersummer\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Fondo Eitorial Tierrra Adentro, México, in 2007.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Bojórquez \u003c\/b\u003e(Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 1968). Poet, essayist and translator. Studied Hispanic Language and Literature at UNAM. He has published eight collections of poetry, amongst them \u003ci\u003eHablar Sombras\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eMemorial de Ayotzinapa\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and  \u003ci\u003eAquí todo es memoria, 25 Years of Poetry,\u003c\/i\u003e (anthology 2016). He has been awarded the most prestigious poetry prizes such as the Abigael Bohórquez Poetry Prize (1996), the National Poetry Prize Aguascalientes (2007), the National Prize for Literary Essay José Revueltas (2010), the Alhambra Prize for American Poetry (2012), the Distinction Prince and Poet Tecayehuatzin de Huexotzinco (2012) and The Ignacio Rodríguez Galván Medal (2015). Since 2007 is part of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. He is the editor of the online literary magazine www.circulodepoesia.com, and director, together with poet Alí Calderón, of the Valparaíso México Series, and The International Poetry Festival CDMX. The poems included here are from the collection \u003ci\u003eHablar Sombras \/ To Speak Shadows,\u003c\/i\u003e first published in 2013 by Andraval Ediciones, México.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlí Calderón \u003c\/b\u003e(México City 1982) poet and literary critic. He completed a Doctorate in Literature at UNAM. He received the National Poetry Prize Ramón López Velarde and the Latin American Poetry Prize Benemérito de América. In 2015 VISOR (Spain) published his most recent poetry collection \u003ci\u003eLAS CORRESPONDECIAS \/ THE CORRESPONDENCES\u003c\/i\u003e, from which the poems included here are taken. He’s the director of the online magazine \u003ci\u003eCírculo de Poesía\u003c\/i\u003e and co-director of Valparaiso México Press and the International Poetry Festival CDMX. Editor of \u003ci\u003ePoéticas Revista de Estudios Literarios \u003c\/i\u003epublished by universities from Europe, USA and Latin America. He’s a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. His most recent books of literary essays are: \u003ci\u003eDel poema al transtexto Essays on how to read Mexican poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, Colombia, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eReinventando el Lirismo\u003c\/i\u003e (Spain, 2015, México, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGustavo Osorio\u003c\/b\u003e (Puebla, México, 1986) completed a BA in Linguistics and Hispanic Literature (2011) and a Masters in Mexican Literature (2014) at the BUAP, receiving a Cum Laude mention in both. He is currently working on a PhD in Hispanic American Literature. He was awarded the Philosophy and Letters Prize for Poetry in 2008. In 2012 he published \u003ci\u003eBonapartes\u003c\/i\u003e, his first collection of poems and in 2015 \u003ci\u003eReinventar el Lirismo\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of essays on poetics (together with Alí Calderón). He has translated poetry from French and English into Spanish, more recently \u003ci\u003eAlmuerzo con Pancho Villa\u003c\/i\u003e by Paul Mudoon published by Valparaiso. He is part of the editing board of the French-Marrocan poetry magazine \u003ci\u003eElecton Libre\u003c\/i\u003e and the academic magazine \u003ci\u003ePoeticas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Licón Cabrera\u003c\/b\u003e (Chihuahua, México, 1949) is a poet and translator. He has published four collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eYuxtas\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eBack\u0026amp;Forth\u003c\/i\u003e), a bilingual edition with the support of Australian Council for the Arts in 2009. He has translated many Australian leading poets into Spanish amongst them Dorothy Porter, Judith Beveridge, Peter Boyle, Ali Cobby Eckerman, Robert Adamson, Michelle Cahill and many more. He is a regular contributor for two Mexican magazines (\u003ci\u003eDosFilos \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCírculo de Poesía\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as for the Australian online magazine \u003ci\u003eMascara Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the Premio de Poesia Trilce (Australia, 2015). Lives in Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePoems of MijaIl Lamas, Mario Bojórquez \u0026amp; Alí Calderón\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e(The Americas Poetry Series 2)\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from Spanish by Mario Licón Cabrera. \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Gustavo Osorio.\u003cbr\u003eFebruary 2017. 118pp. 190mm x 120mm. 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