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5 years after María

In 2016, the Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico suffered a historic blow to its self-advertised form of autonomous government when the…

Sep 15, 2022

A man walks past destroyed homes in Catano, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 21, 2017. Hector Retamal / AFP — Getty Images file

Sep 15, 2022

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My Dead Father in a Storm

5 years after Hurricane María

Sep 17, 2022

My Dead Father in a Storm

Sep 17, 2022

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Dean Moriarty: Spiritual Guide

During one of their pilgrimages through the wild American Midwest, Sal Paradise (alterego of Jack Kerouac) and his endearing spiritual…

Jul 23, 2020

Dean Moriarty: Spiritual Guide

Jul 23, 2020

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Sometimes, a Poem is an Essay: «presson»

“Trump’s lies about Puerto Rico aren’t just cruel — they’re preventing disaster relief—”, read a headline on NBC News Think. Trump’s…

Jun 27, 2020

Sometimes, a Poem is an Essay: «presson»

Jun 27, 2020

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A Greater Piece of History

Notes from the End of a World (II)

Jun 2, 2020

A Greater Piece of History

Jun 2, 2020

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Olga Tokarczuk’s Delectable Antinomies

A novel is a body; a body moves.

May 12, 2020

Olga Tokarczuk’s Delectable Antinomies

May 12, 2020

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Notes from the End of the World

In Puerto Rico, It’s Not Kansas Anymore, Toto

May 12, 2020

Notes from the End of the World

May 12, 2020

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Santurcesutra: los esqueletos del país que nunca fuimos

La Casa de los Poetas Editores, que dirige Zoé Corretjer Jiménez, acaba de entregar los premios para su 3er. Certamen de Poesía 2014, cuya…

Oct 25, 2014

Santurcesutra: los esqueletos del país que nunca fuimos

Oct 25, 2014

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Placebo para la pérdida

La insignificancia es la esencia de la existencia, dice el personaje de Ramón a D’Ardelo en una de las secuencias finales en La fiesta de…

Oct 24, 2014

Placebo para la pérdida

Oct 24, 2014

Elidio La Torre Lagares

Elidio La Torre Lagares

novelist | poet | heathen | University of Texas-El Paso | Author of “Wonderful Wasteland and other natural disasters.”

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