Roxana Calderón nos muestra, como disuelve sus sentimientos a tinta para luego trasarlos a una hoja en blanco y enseñarnos que para sentir no hace falta tocar y que para decir lo que sientes hablar no es necesario.En su primer libro de poesía titulado “La Casa de las Maletas,” nos abre los compartimentos de su corazón, usando una voz confesional y personal. Calderón, es capaz de navegar las altas y bajas de cada sentimiento a través de sus escritos. Verás el corazón latir en las manos de Roxana cuando empieces a leer esta emotiva colección de poemas, donde sus pensamientos íntimos nos presentan con la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre las relaciones que definen nuestras vidas. Su poesía revela ideales que queremos compartir con otros pero que a veces no nos atrevemos. La Casa de las Maletas nos permite decidir lo que nos llevamos de cada relación y lo que nos da confianza sobre lo que debemos de llevar por dentro. El libro de Roxana Calderón triunfa en colocar sobre páginas las emociones que llevamos por dentro y que nos transforman cada día.

La Casa de las Maletas: Todos llevamos un equipaje por dentro (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Calderon, Roxana

Poetry

DWA Press

“La verdad es que yo te e tratado mal. Mal porque tengo miedo. Miedo porque yo era como tú, llena de ideas y verdad, y por mi sabiduría lo perdí todo. Tú no eres Malcriada. Lo que pasa es que tu sabes demasiado.” __
In the middle of the Caribbean Sea, aboard an illegal voyage from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a twelve year old learns her name; a former cacao farmer finds a constellation on his lover’s thighs; best friends become strangers and find the essence of themselves in the face of deception; an old man exchanges his homeland for a New York City bodega storefront; preteen boys grapple with authority; female cousins come to terms with their first shared sexual experience; an alcoholic woman finds serenity at the bottom of the sea; feminism is deconstructed by opposing views; on the back of a motorcycle, self-awareness is found; and a woman discovers that healing is a series of choices.
__ “My mother didn't teach me dependency, I want to yell and enunciate. I cannot force myself to need you. Mami taught me to use my tongue like a sword, and I haven't sharpened it in years. Too afraid, I find myself, to pain him, to say things that might strike him the wrong way. Some feelings just don't translate. “ __ “ You know that Malcriadas can love the world awake.”

Malcriada & Other Stories

Avila, Lorraine

United States

10 dominicanas de letras. Homenaje &amp; antología es una oda, un aliciente literario. Este texto reúne a diez transcendentales escritoras dominicanas que han residido o residen en el extranjero. Ellas son Camila Henríquez Ureña, Rhina Espaillat, Mélida García, Osiris Mosquea, Josefina Báez, Aurora Arias, Yrene Santos, Marianela Medrano, Rosa Silverio y Sussy Santana. Además de incluir poesía, cuento y microcuento de estas escritoras, el libro también contiene textos literarios, de ficción y anecdóticos que celebran la grandeza, el talento o algún aspecto especial en la vida de estas escritoras. Homenajes escritos por escritores y escritoras también con excelsas trayectorias literarias. Es un privilegio poner en sus manos textos que varían en género, en épocas, corrientes literarias, estilos, motivaciones y temas; textos de y para mujeres de letras que, a través de su talento, de su arte, de su educación, de su persistencia, de su fuerza, de su amor y respeto por la palabra se han convertido en pilares de nuestra literatura.

10 Dominicanas de Letras: Homenaje & Antología (Spanish Edition)

Antigua, Kianny N.

Ritmo Que Late: An Anthology of Submissions during 2018 NAPOWRIMO

Writers, Dominican

Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá is a fresh collection of diverse voices from the Dominican community that offers a balance of contemporary writers of multiple generations of the Dominican diaspora. The world of Dominican literature we grew up in taught us how stories become a fierce tool that serves to amplify the realities of some while muting and many times erasing the experiences of many. This anthology includes stories that are a product of those generations. In them, you will find people who navigate homesickness, nostalgia, assimilation, identity, immigration, and so many other societal factors created by the systems of both the United States and the Dominican Republic. While these individuals grapple with full acceptance or a sense of home in both societies, the contributors put words on paper so that we can find our own full selves in the spaces created by their words. Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá attests to the vibrancy, power, and force of the sentimientos encontrados within the balance of both the here and the there.

Ni de aquí, Ni de allá: A multi-perspective account of the Dominican diasporic experience.

Essays & Correspondence

The agony of being an immigrant and not being in a constant place is spilled wrathfully and fairly on the pages of Para Cenar Habrá Nostalgia. In the midst of arrival procedures, fatigued train rides, living adaptations, and a very loud Dominican accent, Fior E. Plasencia presents a collection of poems that excavates the damage experienced since she and her family departed from the Dominican Republic to the United States. Fior also reveals a more familiar devastation: a journey with her body and soul growing up in the neglected parts of New York City. The persistent sensation of returning to her native country is sensed in her multilingual words, yet, they also rise with self-determination and appreciation of her brown complexion. Throughout her poetry is a non-conformist voice; her rebellious spoken words and dominicanidad are offered as the true forms of the diaspora revolution. The author serves the feast to the reader with tropical nourishment, memory, sarcasm, humor, survival, and homesickness. Here you will find authentic verses dressed in Spanish, English, and Spanglish infused with recognizable flavors, bilingual dilemmas, reminiscent of a childhood on the island.

Para Cenar Habra Nostalgia (English and Spanish Edition)

Fior E. Plasencia

La clase entra en sesi n, los ni os trabajan entusiasmados en su primer proyecto basado en una variedad de bailes. Mar a aprende diferentes estilos a trav s de sus amigos, cada uno de diferente origen cultural. Ella observa a sus amigos ensayando sus bailes pero no sabe qu deber a bailar. nase a nosotros mientras bailamos al descubrir el estilo de baile de Mar a. Class is in session, all the kids are enthusiastically working on their first project based on a variety of dances. Mar a learns different styles through her friends, each from a different cultural background. She observes her friends rehearsing their dances but she doesn't know what she should dance. Join us as we dance our way to find Mar a's dancing style.

¡Pequeña María descubre su baile! / Little María discovers her dance!

Children's Books

Mack, Luz Maria

Arts, Music & Photography

Palma Sola, de Gabriel Castillo Campusano, es una novela gráfica que, desde diversas fuentes, narra la historia de una masacre de campesinos perpetrada por las autoridades dominicanas en 1962, en Las Matas de Farfán, hecho que, al igual que la Revolución de abril de 1965, marcada con sangre la segunda mitad del siglo XX en la República Dominicana.\nLos hermanos Ventura Rodríguez, marcados por la historia, nacieron vinculados al movimiento campesino más notable de las Antillas: el olivorismo. Y como Olivorio Mateo, un pobre campesino mulato de San Juan de la Maguana, los hermanos Ventura Rodríguez y miles de dominicanos, fueron arrastrados a una muerte violenta a manos de quienes aún se esconden tras las máscaras del poder y la intolerancia para imponer sus ideas y tus intereses.\n"Con excelente manejo de la tensión y un dibujo exquisito, Gabriel Castillo nos lleva de la mano para narrar el declive y renacimiento del movimiento Liborista. Demostrando un buen manejo del arte secuencial, nos muestra esa parte olvidada de nuestra historia sin la cual es imposible entender el presente. de manera agradable y accesible ".\n-NINO MARTÍNEZ SOSA 
Director de Liborio, la película

PALMA SOLA Liborio Mateo, El Origen (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Castillo, Gerardo

History & Criticism

Palma Sola, by Gabriel Castillo Campusano, is a graphic novel that, based on various sources, tells the story of a massacre of peasants perpetrated by the Dominican authorities in 1962, in Las Matas de Farfán, an event that, like the April Revolution 1965, marked with blood the second half of the 20th century in the Dominican Republic. The Ventura Rodríguez brothers, marked by history, were born linked to the most notable peasant movement in the Antilles: olivorism. And like Olivorio Mateo, a poor mulatto peasant from San Juan de la Maguana, the Ventura Rodríguez brothers and thousands of Dominicans, were dragged to violent death at the hands of those who still hide behind the masks of power and intolerance to impose their ideas and their interests.

PALMA SOLA Liborio Mateo, The Origin

Armando Batista's debut chapbook is a kaleidoscope of family, personal mythology and the poetics of memory-making. These 13 poems will take you on a journey of ancestors, naming rituals, personal and fantastical transformation, house music, hometown and motherland, mental time travel, Twilight Zone, afrofuturism, and aging. Think of this as a modern-day Leaves of Grass if Whitman were a child of Dominican immigrants growing up in a Hip-Hop inspired America.

Cosmic Mesa

Batista, Armando

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