Shrines desert sea
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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