Edwin Torres – författare

In this vibrant reflection of sound and word, poet Edwin Torres reignites the possibilities of poetry. From poems like ""Me No Habla Spic,"" a rumination of life's major moments, to ""Fixative,"" which exercises shifting vantage points, Torres is nimble—surfing through memory, definition, and forms of social address. In this new collection, Torres offers some signature performance pieces for the first time in print.Ameriscopia reimagines New York City and its expansive inspirations, which for Torres capture the contradictions of America. Allusions to the Twin Towers, Coney Island hot dogs, and the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe continuously recolor the pages. But even as he makes these iconic references, Torres allows his poems to invert and refract the identities they evoke—New-Yorker-American-Latino-Dad-Performer-Boy-Writer—to invigorate poetry out of its slumber into a deep cultural urgency. Torres's kaleidoscopic vision is borne of decades of poetic experimentation. Audiences have delighted in his spontaneous mashups of disparate topic matters; writers have studied his skilled technique at synthesizing—for example, from a mundane curbside view to an imagined conversation with artists Marcel Duchamp and Yves Tanguy.Torres writes, ""I discovered that, this world uncovered / is like the soul / of The Puerto Rican man — occupied / by the weight of his balance."" Ameriscopia is Torres's statement on growing up and the inspirational facets that accompany his journey into fatherhood. From conversations in cars to fast-beat lullabies, Torres's poetry taps into rhythms both distinctive and dynamic. In Ameriscopia Torres is at full force, a poet in control, a writer emboldened by the page—in flight.

Real Life Fiction is a book comprised of forty-nine poems which reflect on the world life and fiction. Some of the poems were inspired by real-life events. The writings in this book are from the points of view of the author. I would like to thank Holly Ickes, Sal Furlock, and everyone on the page publishing staff for making this book possible. I would also like to thank the readers who took time out to read this book.

Poesias de mi mente: Historias del presente es un libro compuesto de 39 poemas que reflejan el mundo, religion, gobierno, la vida, y ficcion. Las escrituras de este libro son del punto de vista del autor. Me gustaria dar gracias a Holly Ickes, el personal de Page Publishing y a los lectores que tomaron el tiempo para leer este libro.

»En episkt berättad, exotiserande skröna. En pusselbit i den amerikanska populärkulturens vurm för stilrena maffiafilmer.« Thomas Jonsson, BTJI spanska Harlem finns det bara en väg för den som vill tjäna pengar: kriminalitet, droghandel, stöld. Carlito Brigante är en vanlig puertoricansk pojke som med charm, envishet och våld lyckas ta sig till toppen. Men reglerna förändras snabbt i denna värld full av bedrägeri, svek och hämnd. Bara de mest kallsinniga kan upprätthålla ledande positioner i barriot - och när gängets ledning byts ut blir Carlito tvingad att fatta svåra beslut. Edwin Torres klassiska roman Carlitos väg är en laddad och gripande skildring av den undre världen i 1960-talets New York. Tillsammans med uppföljaren After Hours låg boken till grund för filmen Carlito's Way från 1993, med Al Pacino i huvudrollen. EDWIN TORRES [f.1931] är en amerikansk författare av puertoricansk härkomst. Under närmare trettio år tjänade han som domare i New Yorks högsta domstol. Mest känd är han för romanerna Carlitos väg [1975] och After Hours [1979].

»En episkt berättad, exotiserande skröna. En pusselbit i den amerikanska populärkulturens vurm för stilrena maffiafilmer.« BTJ I spanska Harlem finns det bara en väg för den som vill tjäna pengar: kriminalitet, droghandel, stöld. Carlito Brigante är en vanlig puertoricansk pojke som med charm, envishet och våld lyckas ta sig till toppen. Men reglerna förändras snabbt i denna värld full av bedrägeri, svek och hämnd. Bara de mest kallsinniga kan upprätthålla ledande positioner i barriot - och när gängets ledning byts ut blir Carlito tvingad att fatta svåra beslut. Edwin Torres klassiska roman Carlitos väg är en laddad och gripande skildring av den undre världen i 1960-talets New York. Tillsammans med uppföljaren After Hours låg boken till grund för filmen Carlito's Way från 1993, med Al Pacino i huvudrollen. EDWIN TORRES [f.1931] är en amerikansk författare av puertoricansk härkomst. Under närmare trettio år tjänade han som domare i New Yorks högsta domstol. Mest känd är han för romanerna Carlitos väg [1975] och After Hours [1979].

In richly immersive and sonically engaging poems, American Book Award winner Edwin Torres sculpts language toward a landing place for sensorial and ecological input.Torres’s new collection, feel recordings in the evershift, investigates ecology and the body as fields of perception, seeking to record this felt world and allow the reader a chance to roam within their own recordings. A longtime teacher and performance artist, globally active in collaboration with many multidisciplinary communities, the poet explores placemaking as self-making, portraying for the reader the wide-ranging possibilities of poem making. This record of investigation and deep listening reveals poetry’s ability to connect the body to the earth’s continual shift. As we experience the ecopoetics formed through this process, we are asked to join Torres in challenging a poem’s function on the page, in the reader, and within the world.

Poet and performer Edwin Torres's extraordinary new book emerges in five riveting sections with a thematic undercurrent examining the body, love, journey, direction, and talk. These poems, intimate and expansive, use lyrical tone as an entry into communication, allowing experimental pieces and quiet poems to coexist. Black-and-white art illuminates the text and contributes to the lingual density while adding a figurative translation to the work. The overall sense is one of internal combustion, a sensory experience within the allegory of the human condition.

“There is no other poet who writes like Torres. Elaborate, chanting, pointed, and granite in their ‘octaves of shine,’ his poems have it all. They are a real and gritty pleasure to read, a necessary tonic to these toxic times.” —John YauWhat does a book want to be in anyone’s hands but an infinite word object? XoeteoX is a dare into perception, traversing territories of language, sound, and the visual page. At the intersection of identity, performance, and typography, these poems compel reader and word into being, presenting a pact towards understanding and the mutual beyond.between you and mea skin of cognition — a container holding us together — connecting usyour skin is incredibly porousyour existence — unfolding within ita journey leading back to its creation —a right now — in the making that forms the beginningof what you end — right nowEdwin Torres is the author of eight books of poetry, including Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press), Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books), The PoPedology Of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books), and editor of the forthcoming anthology, Out Of Each Other: An Anthology Of The Body In Language (Counterpath Press). He has performed worldwide and taught his process-oriented workshop, “Brainlingo: Writing The Voice Of The Body,” across the nation.