The Blood That Keeps Singing/La Sangre Que Sigue Canta - Vélez, Clemente Soto
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This is the first collection in English translation of poems by the 86-year old dean of Puerto Rican poets, Clemente Soto Vélez. These are poems that explore such topics as liberation, solitude, and the 'promised land'-- Soto Velez approaches these themes with a firm and precise hand-- his explorations are at once intensely personal and universally applicable. In this bilingual book which offers a selection of his poetry drawn from Soto Velez's published works dating back to 1937, we are given the scope of the poet's life, his struggles and accomplishments.

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This is the first collection in English translation of poems by the 86-year old dean of Puerto Rican poets, Clemente Soto Vélez. These are poems that explore such topics as liberation, solitude, and the 'promised land'-- Soto Velez approaches these themes with a firm and precise hand-- his explorations are at once intensely personal and universally applicable. In this bilingual book which offers a selection of his poetry drawn from Soto Velez's published works dating back to 1937, we are given the scope of the poet's life, his struggles and accomplishments.
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Autorenporträt
Clemente Soto Vélez was the author of Escalio (1937), Abrazo interno (1954), Caballo de palo (1959), La tierra prometida (979), Obra poetica (1989) and other works. He co-founded the surrealist movement "La Atalaya de los Dioses," which deeply influenced Puerto Rican literature. After his imprisonment from 1936 to 1942 for his leadership role in the Puerto Rican independence movement, he settled in New York where he emerged as a major figure in the Puerto Rican literary community of that city. He died in Puerto Rico in 1993. Martín Espada is the recipient of an American Book Award for Imagine the Angels of Bread which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his other honors are the PEN/Revson Fellowship and the Paterson Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation. and The Best American Poetry. A former tenant lawyer, her is currently a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Camilo Pérez-Bustillo is a translator, activist, and fellow at the University of Texas El Paso working in defense of human rights at the U.S.-Mexico border.