Corazón y una lengua peregrina, Poesía y narrativa

Description

Corazón y una lengua peregrina is an atypical anthology that collects throughout its pages the views of writers from different literary and cultural meridians. It is a compendium of stories in which reality and fiction mingle to create an alternate world that arises from the social problems of its protagonists. Its introduction is an apology for Spanish-language literature in the US. This book is a defense of “a culture permanently threatened with deportation. ” Therefore, the defense of language is the defense of culture. Hence the importance of the publication of this anthology, when an atavistic feeling of hatred towards immigrants, which promises to criminalize individuals simply by their language, color or religion, is rising. In this book, there are twenty-eight poems of different backgrounds that form a homogeneous whole revealing a universal concern for our identity and our origins. We also find eleven stories, dazzling stories that recreate life and death, through experiences that transport us to Mother Earth. Although the writers of this anthology question in an internal and deep reflection the type of society in which we live, likewise, we present love as a natural consequence and some stories give us a sample of brilliant humor that brings us back to reality.

About the Author:
Germán Perilla Díaz, Jessica Ayala, Norma Elia Cantú, María de los Ángeles Díaz, Eloísa Pérez-Lozano, Martín Torres, Gabriela Ybarra Lemmons, Rogelio Arellano Álvarez, Lupita Vargas, Marta Silva-Serrano, Gloria Martínez Adams, José Faus, Xánath Caraza, Juanita Salazar-Lamb, Sofiana Olivera Abalán, Eugenio González Núñez.

The Spanish section of the Latino Writers Collective of Kansas City has been working for several years on poetry and narrative development. We meet weekly to participate in literary workshops, cultural events, editorial processes, and planning our participation in conferences and readings around the metropolitan area. Our group is compiled by a diverse group of Spanish-speaking authors from countries such as Mexico (Rogelio Arellano, Xanath Caraza, María de los Ángeles Díaz, Martín Torres, Lupita Vargas), Colombia (Jessica Ayala, José Faus, Germán Perilla Díaz), Spain (Eugenio González Núñez, Marta Silva Serrano), the United States (Norma Cantú, Gloria Martínez Adams, Juanita Salazar, Gabriela Ybarra Lemmons, Eloísa Pérez Lozano), and Perú (Sofiana Olivera Abalán). Our members are educators, librarians, journalists, artists, activists, and researchers, who aim to present a complex vision of what it means to create literature away from our respective cultural comfort areas.