Mara Pastor

María José Giménez

Anna Rosenwong

Deuda Natal finds the beauty within vulnerability and the dignity amidst precariousness. As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life—and for language—can create a space of poetic decolonization. The poems in Deuda Natal propose new ways of understanding as they traverse a thematic landscape of women’s labor, the figure of the nomad and immigrant, and the return from economic exile to confront the catastrophic confluence of disaster and disaster capitalism. The poems in Deuda Natal reckon with the stark environmental degradation in Puerto Rico and the larger impacts of global climate change as they navigate our changing world through a feminist lens. Pastor’s work asserts a feminist objection to our society’s obsession with production and the accumulation of wealth, offering readers an opportunity for collective vulnerability within these pages. For this remarkable work, Pastor has found unique allies in María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong, the translators of Deuda Natal. Winner of the 2020 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets, this collection showcases masterfully crafted and translated poems that are politically urgent and emotionally striking.

Deuda Natal

Pedro Cabiya

Janette Becerra

Luis Negrón

Carlos Fonseca

Eduardo Lalo

Rafael Acevedo

Marta Aponte

Yolanda Arroyo

Sofia Irene Cardona

Cezanne Cardona

Tere Dávila

Francisco Font Acevedo

Sergio Gutierrez Negrón

Christian Ibarra

José Liboy

Pabsi Livmar

Jotacé López

Lina Nieves

Manolo Nuñez Negrón

Alexandra Pagán

Juanluís Ramos

Luis Othoniel Rosa

Mayra Santos Febres

Ana Teresa Toro

Vanessa Vilches

Durante siglos el mundo entró y salió a través del Caribe, esa región profusa capaz de agitar la Historia y levantarla como huracán. Esa fuerza, hoy más que nunca, se ha consolidado en Puerto Rico, donde abunda una semilla endémica de literatura disruptiva, contemporánea e incisiva. En esta selección, hecha por Mara Pastor, hay autores/as que escriben desde su propia isla, o desde la diáspora, de diferentes generaciones, hay obra previamente publicada o inédita, voces queer, textos policiacos, de ciencia ficción y prosa poética. Este libro transpira un pedazo de la fascinante pluralidad literaria de Puerto Rico, cuyo momento prolífico no puede dejarse pasar.

Narrativa puertorriqueña reciente

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Mara Pastor

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