Best Hispanic American Poetry Books
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1. Postcolonial Love Poem
Author: by Natalie Diaz
Graywolf (March 3, 2020)
English
120 pages
WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYNatalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book AwardPostcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure.
Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pagesbodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and loversbe touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: Let me call my anxiety, desire, then.
/ Let me call it, a garden. In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.
2. Empty Bottles Full of Stories
Author: by r.h. Sin
English
240 pages
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A joint poetry collection from the virally popular and bestselling poets r.H.Sin and Robert M.Drake. What are you hiding behind your smile? If those empty bottles that line the walls of your room could speak, what tales would they spill?
So much of your truth is buried beneath the lies you tell yourself. There’s a need to scream to the moon; there’s this urge to go out into the darkness of the night to purge. There are so many stories living inside your soul, you just want the opportunity to tell them.
And when you can’t find the will to express what lives within your heart, these words will give you peace. These words will set you free.
3. Falling Toward the Moon
Author: by r.h. Sin
English
240 pages
1524853836
From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of Stories comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose. The heart will ache, the soul will feel weary, and the mind will be weighed down by the things you wish to forget.
There will be nights when all you have is yourself and the moon. There will be nights when silence will exist in abundance. And even though you may feel lonely at first. You must understand that the solitude is a gift; you must understand that even when alone, you are more than enough.
4. Bright Dead Things
Author: by Ada Limón
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Corsair (February 7, 2019)
February 7, 2019
‘Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I’m thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.’ Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, Bright Dead Things considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact – tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker’s sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth and falls in love.
In these extraordinary poems Ada Limn’s heart becomes a ‘huge beating genius machine’ striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment.’I am beautiful.I am full of love. I am dying,’ the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O’Hara, Sharon Olds and Mark Doty, Limn’s work is consistently generous, accessible, and ‘effortlessly lyrical’ (New York Times) – though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt and lived.
5. Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Spanish Edition)
Author: by Pablo Neruda
l'Aleph (February 5, 2020)
Spanish
50 pages
Veinte poemas de amor y una cancin desesperad es una de las ms clebres obras del poeta chileno Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Publicado en 1924, el poemario lanz a su autor a la fama con apenas 19 aos de edad, y es una de las obras literarias de mayor renombre del siglo XX en la lengua castellana.
El libro pertenece a la poca de juventud del poeta, ya que fue escrito y publicado cuando no contaba an con veinte aos. Su origen se suele explicar como una evolucin consciente de su potica que trata de salirse de los moldes del modernismo que dominaban sus primeras composiciones y su primer libro, Crepusculario.
La obra est compuesta por veinte poemas de temtica amorosa, ms un poema final titulado La cancin desesperada. A excepcin de este ltimo, los poemas no tienen ttulo. Aunque el poemario est basado en experiencias amorosas reales del joven Neruda, es un libro de amor que no se dirige a una sola amante.
El poeta ha mezclado en sus versos las caractersticas fsicas de varias mujeres reales de su primera juventud para crear una imagen de la amada irreal que no corresponde a ninguna de ellas en concreto, sino que representa una idea puramente potica de su objeto amoroso.
6. Heart and Soul
Author: by Mark Anthony
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English
77 pages
These poems are about what it means to love somebody with all your heart and soul.
7. The Carrying: Poems
Author: by Ada Limón
B07GCPZ62F
August 14, 2018
English
NBCC Award Winner: The narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection … Could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body. The New York Times Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance.
A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertilityWhat if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief? And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.
And still National Book Award finalist Ada Limn shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. Fine then, / I’ll take it, she writes.I’ll take it all. Gorgeous, thought-provoking … Simple, striking images.
Publishers Weekly (starred review) Exquisite. The Washington Post Pitch-perfect … Full of poems to savor and share … She writes with remarkable directness about painful experiences normally packaged in euphemism and, in doing so, invites the readers to enter a world where abundant joy exists alongside and simultaneous to loss.
8. How to Love a Country: Poems
Author: by Richard Blanco
Beacon Press
English
112 pages
A timely and moving collection from the renowned inaugural poet on issues facing our country and peopleimmigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all.
Blanco digs deep into the very marrow of our nation through poems that interrogate our past and present, grieve our injustices, and note our flaws, but also remember to celebrate our ideals and cling to our hopes. Charged with the utopian idea that no single narrative is more important than another, this book asserts that America could and ought someday to be a country where all narratives converge into one, a country we can all be proud to love and where we can all truly thrive.
The poems form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the forced exile of 8,500 Navajos in 1868; a lynching in Alabama; the arrival of a young Chinese woman at Angel Island in 1938; the incarceration of a gifted writer; and the poet’s abiding love for his partner, who he is finally allowed to wed as a gay man.
9
Citizen Illegal (BreakBeat Poets)
Author: by José Olivarez
English
80 pages
1608469549
Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it. Eve Ewing, author of Electric ArchesIn this stunning debut, poet Jos Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America.
He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between.
Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in. Olivarez has a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch.
Jos Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. He is a co-host of the podcast, The Poetry Gods. A winner of fellowships from Poets House, The Bronx Council On The Arts, The Poetry Foundation, and The Conversation Literary Festival, his work has been published in The BreakBeat Poets and elsewhere.
10. The Carrying: Poems
Author: by Ada Limón
English
120 pages
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Available for the first time in paperback, The Carryingwinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Awardis Ada Limn’s most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance.
A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertilityWhat if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief? And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.
And still Limn shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. Fine then, / I’ll take it, she writes.I’ll take it all. In Bright Dead Things, Limn showed us a heart giant with power, heavy with bloodthe huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it’s going to come in first.
11. Guillotine: Poems
Author: by Eduardo C. Corral
English
72 pages
1644450305
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYThe astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets PrizeGuillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, the border itselfgreat distances in which violence and yearning find roots.
Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and scorned lovers, award-winning poet Eduardo C. Corral writes dramatic portraits of contradiction, survival, and a deeply human, relentless interiority. With extraordinary lyric imagination, these poems wonder about being unwanted or renounced.
What do we do with unrequited love? Is it with or without it that we would waste away? In the sequence Testaments Scratched into Water Station Barrels, with Corral’s seamless integration of Spanish and English, poems curve around the surfaces upon which they are written, overlapping like graffiti left by those who may or may not have survived crossing the border.
12. Corazón
Author: by Yesika Salgado
English
106 pages
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Corazn is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isn’t enough. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere; her fat brown body, her parents home country, a lover, a toothbrush, a mango, or a song.
It is a celebration of heartache, of how it can ruin us, but most importantly how we always survive it and return to ourselves whole.
13. Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds (Wittliff Collections Literary Series)
Author: by Sergio Troncoso
English
262 pages
1623499631
“A deeply meaningful collection that navigates important nuances of identity.”-Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewNepantla Familias brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between different worlds-how the authors or their characters create, or fail to create, a cohesive identity amid the contradictions in their lives.
Nepantla-or living in the in-between space of the borderland-is the focus of this anthology. The essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life-the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between Spanish and English, between cultures with traditional and shifting identities.
In times of change, family values are either adapted or discarded in the quest for self-discovery, part of the process of selecting and composing elements of a changing identity. Edited by award-winning writer and scholar Sergio Troncoso, this anthology includes works from familiar and acclaimed voices such as David Dorado Romo, Sandra Cisneros, Alex Espinoza, Reyna Grande, and Francisco Cant, as well as from important new voices, such as Stephanie Li, David Dominguez, and ire’ne lara silva.
14. Loose Woman: Poems
Author: by Sandra Cisneros
Vintage
English
115 pages
A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. From the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
15. Antología general Neruda / General Anthology (EDICIÓN CONMEMORATIVA DE LA RAE Y LA ASALE) (Spanish Edition)
Author: by Pablo Neruda
Spanish
832 pages
194906140X
Una antologa miscelnea de Pablo Neruda preparada y avalada por la Real Academia Espaola y la Asociacin de Academias de la Lengua Espaola. Un original itinerario cronolgico por los escritos de Neruda, que entrelaza la prosa con la poesa, las cartas con los artculos periodsticos, y estos con las crnicas de viajes, hasta conformar una biografa vital y literaria del poeta a travs de su obra.
Incluye el curioso texto indito del poeta, la Crnica de San Pancho. Ediciones conmemorativas de la Real Academia Espaola y la Asociacin de Academias de la Lengua EspaolaEn 2004 y coincidiendo con la celebracin del IV Centenario de la publicacin de la primera parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha, la Real Academia Espaola y la Asociacin de Academias de la Lengua Espaola dieron inicio a un proyecto de edicin de grandes obras de la literatura en espaol.
Concebida como una lnea de ediciones conmemorativas ocasionales y de circulacin limitada de los grandes clsicos hispanos de todos los tiempos, dichas obras son publicadas y distribuidas en todo el mundo de habla hispana. Antologa general de Pablo Neruda se une ahora a esta coleccin de la que ya forman parte La ciudad y los perros de Mario Vargas Llosa; La regin ms transparente de Carlos Fuentes; Yo el Supremo de Augusto Roa Bastos, Borges esencial, Rubn Daro.
