Shrines desert sea

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Reseña del libro Santuarios desierto mar

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

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Juan Armando Rojas Joo

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.

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