SIN TI NO SOY YO

Literature & Fiction

Lourdes Vázquez

United States

Ediciones Puerto

Traditionally, a bestiary is a collection of fables about actual or mythological animals. In this collection, however, Lourdes Vázquez has crafted a bestiary of a different sort with a compilation of sensuous poetry in which insects, animals, and strangers reflect her experience as a "Caribbean in exile." The poems resound with humor and grief, turn catastrophe into renewal, and playfully explore what happens in a world where the relationship between humans and beasts is still intact. At times edgy, this poetry is never cold. It is instead vibrantly alive, flowing in a confluence of desire and anger, passion and cool appraisal.

Bestiary: Selected Poems, 1986-1997

Rosa Alcalá

Poetry

Bilingual Pr (Bilrp)

<p>In Not Myself without You, a working-class Puerto Rican family of the 1950s lives surrounded by spirits, ghosts, and witches, a result of incantations performed in their living room. Chronicling nearly two decades of the family's history including their occult activities the story involves characters who are centered in Puerto Rico but who move through the Caribbean, Central America, Spain, and New York as they are pulled by the economic, political, and social conditions of the times and by their own intense desires. Lacking the tools to understand the complexity of the world around them, these entities often travel without clear concepts of place or time and in a constant aura of exile. As their stories come to light through fragments of prayers, sayings, poems, newspaper articles, and excerpts from books as in a family scrapbook, the characters themselves speak of intimate, political, or social issues in voices that are familiar, erotic, satirical, and humorous. Based on oral history and research, Not Myself Without You is the author's own memoir with a strong fictional twist.</p>

Not Myself Without You

Genre Fiction

Bilingual Review Press

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