The Blood That Keeps Singing/ La Sangre Que Sigue Cantando: Selected Poems of Clemente Soto Velez

Clemente Soto Vélez was the author of Escalio (1937), Abrazo interno (1954), Caballo de palo (1959), La tierra prometida (979), Obra poetica (1989) and other works. He co-founded the surrealist movement ＂La Atalaya de los Dioses,＂ which deeply influenced Puerto Rican literature. After his imprisonment from 1936 to 1942 for his leadership role in the Puerto Rican independence movement, he settled in New York where he emerged as a major figure in the Puerto Rican literary community of that city. He died in Puerto Rico in 1993.

Martin Espada is the recipient of an American Book Award for Imagine the Angels of Bread which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his other honors are the PEN/Revson Fellowship and the Paterson Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation. and The Best American Poetry. A former tenant lawyer, her is currently a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Perez-Bustillo is Research Professor, State of Mexico campus of the Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.