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"I love the clarity and directness of these poems, the precision of both vision and language here, where perception and imagination are inseparable, where a deep intelligence and cutting wit are met always, and always unexpectedly, by magic. José Alcántara pays deep attention to the 'ordinary,' to the physical, especially to the natural world, which attention is the truest love. And while each poem is a true lyric, a whole song in itself, the cumulative effect is greater, a quiet symphony of the senses and the spirit."--Cecilia Woloch "With a mathematician's passion for accuracy, José Alcántara meditates on the difficult equations of our deepest concerns. The balance between love and ind...
¿The short stories of José Alcántara Almánzar are an ideal point of entry into the thematic and stylistic wealth contemporary Dominican literature offers. `Moving, urgent, piercing¿ is how critic Orlando Alcántara Fernández characterizes Alcántara Almánzar¿s mastery of his craft, `his mark of identity as a writer from beginning to end.¿. . . . Formally experimental and thematically innovative, the short stories of José Alcántara Almánzar showcase his willingness to deploy a range of techniques drawn from both his deep understanding of the psychology and social constraints of his characters and his command of the traditions of his chosen genre. From Edgar Allan Poe to Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar¿to whom Alcántara Almánzar acknowledges a profound debt¿his fiction is steeped in the history of the short story while pushing its technical and thematic boundaries into new directions.¿ ¿From the Introduction by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
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Comenta la posibilidad de colaboración de José Luis Sampedro en un ciclo de conferencias
The unevenly clustered historical conditions of the Caribbean nations bind us to the revival and redefinition of the ideals of unification begotten by 19th Century Puerto Rican thinkers. Coleccion Caribena is intended to build connection points that will
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