Sanctuaries desert sea by Juan Armando Rojas is the best example of Mexican-American cross-border poetry. This bilingual edition represents the wide universe of lyrical references that characterizes Rojas’ poetry, In addition to being a tribute to the native peoples, their mythologies and their experiences transcultural.
Without a doubt, Desert Sea Sanctuaries is destined to become a classic of contemporary cross-border poetry.
Charles Tatum, Professor Emeritus specialist in Mexican and Chicano literature by the University of Arizona, USA
In the poetry of Juan Armando Rojas the desert is a scar and also an estuary. twice name as a border space, sanctuary of memory and language: that of a chronicler of the Indies and that of who belongs to that mythical and shifting territory.
in this song to the desert, the poems sail over dunes.
María Ángeles Pérez López, poet and professor at the University of Salamanca, Spain
Cross-border poet, narrator and cross-border essayist who recently published Aurora
Boreal, a collection of audio-poems (2023) found on YouTube. Rojas has in his
There are ten collections of poems, including Como luz de rio / Like River Light (2019) and Santuarios desert
sea / Sanctuaries desert sea (2015) and can be obtained online. Rojas has also published
a monograph on current Mexican poetry, as well as co-editing two anthologies of denunciation
poetics against feminicide. In addition to Arabic, Rojas' work has been translated into English,
Portuguese and Italian and has been honored as poet-in-residence at the University of Coimbra,
Portugal. Rojas received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Latin American literature from the University of
Texas in El Paso and the doctorate from the University of Arizona. It has the V Literary Contest
of Poetry from the University of Monterrey, Mexico and the First Mexico-US Binational Competition of
story, as well as countless scholarships, he has also been a Spanish professor at several universities
in the United States, department head in modern languages, associate dean and director
specialist in diversity, equity and inclusion.
