Encounter Between Cuentos and Versos by Irene Perez,Roberto Cabello-Argandoña PDF

"Encounter among cuentos and versos" is a gem to treasure as tales advised in poetic varieties for readers of all ages—from teens to the more matured and professional booklover. those poems exhibit us a early life lived in Puerto Rico, they usually discover a center awakening to satisfy the complexity of a brand new lifestyles within the U.S. mainland. the various contrasts found
here function portals right into a deepest self dealing with worry and courage—“If you dare startle what’s
inside the wall…”—and into the general public self taking a look outwards with compassion—“But one
day/Beyond the noise of all histories . . .”
The Spanish dispersed all through this assortment provides an important pulse to the poet’s love and take care of the beat and rhythm of language. yet at its
core, this paintings stands robust with that means, encountering good looks, via lyricism, within the past
and within the consciousness to the now.
In those sensual, intensely given, occasionally fantastical poems and prose items, we're given
scenes of belief, start and youth, of a kinfolk uprooted from Puerto Rico to Brooklyn,
landing in Jersey urban and past. In Perez’s international, every little thing is made to count number, the body
passage into white attire, “life fires and hurricanes”, “long hallways marked by means of doors”, the
astrological impression of the planets in our whirling heavens. Her’s is an unique, colourful and
complex voice, and her poems do honor to our memories.
—Colette Inez, writer of "The Luba Poems."

Cultures collide during this riveting paintings, yet Irene Perez navigates us to protection along with her glittering verse. whereas the area she paints is agridulce, she by no means forgets to sweeten all that's sour.
Get able to be transported.
—Stephanie Elizondo Griest, writer of "Mexican sufficient: My lifestyles among the Borderlines."

In and out, up and down, right here and there, then and now, physique and spirit, demanding and delicate, black, white, and hues in among, wind and silence, water and sand, asleep and awake...take turns, subscribe to and separate in those poems and prose paintings to create a tapestry of emotions shared via lyricism and fervour for language.
—Nora de Hoyos Comstock, "Count of Me: stories of Sisterhoods and Fierce Friendships /Cuenta Conmigo: Historias Conmovedoras de Hermandad y Amistades Incondicionales."

Irene Perez
Irene’s brief tales and poems have seemed in Kalyani journal, South Florida Arts magazine, Northern Liberties gentle, New Mirage magazine, Acentos evaluation, Ardent, Mangrove, Gulfstreaming
Magazine, lengthy Shot, The Américas assessment, The Bilingual overview. She has written non-fiction
pieces for Somos Padres: A publication for folks and Educators, LatinGirl journal and Críticas. She is presently engaged on her first novel.