The new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, granted by the National Poetry Series, is the author\'s impressionistic homage to his hometown of Colima, Mexico.
He holds an MFA from New Mexico State University with an emphasis on Spanish-American literature, and currently teaches Spanish at North Creek High School in Washington State..
Pérez-Cortés\'s first English poems appeared in the anthology Soundings from the Salish Sea: A Pacific Northwest Poetry Anthology .
His poems and short stories have been published in various Mexican newspapers.
About author(s): Alejandro Pérez-Cortés was born in Colima, Mexico.
A voice That encompasses all, one That seeks to integrate, remake, and modify normative language when necessary, and to distort language That allows a better perception of the present and of everything That is historically behind a contemporary poet.
In his introduction, preeminent Cuban poet José Kozer praises Pérez-Cortés: Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed comprises a voice That I consider poetic and That should be cared for and listened to with true interest.
Some poems are set in an ancient pre-Hispanic Colima; while others reflect the reality of a modern-day Colima, sadly stigmatized and eroded by violence perpetrated by the narcos.
The Tree is an element/character in the book That appears and disappears throughout.
Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed is Alejandro Pérez-Cortés \'s poetic presentation of the history of Colima, Mexico, published here in both English and Spanish.
The new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, granted by the National Poetry Series, is the author\'s impressionistic homage to his hometown of Colima, Mexico
