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Benito Pastoriza Iyodo;void(0)) Benito Pastoriza Iyodo is an award-winning author from Puerto Rico. He majored in English and Latin American literature at the University of Puerto Rico and undertook his graduate studies in Spanish language and literature in the United States where he attained his master’s degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has received various prizes in the genres of poetry and short story. The Ateneo Puertorriqueño awarded him prizes for his book of poetry Gotas verdes para la ciudad and the short story entitled “El indiscreto encanto”. His poetry has also won awards from the University of Puerto Rico, the Chicano Latino Literary Prize and Voces Selectas of Luz Bilingual Publishing. Pastoriza was one of the founders of the magazine Tinta, which specializes in the diffusion of new literature written by Latinos in the United States. His writings have been published in the magazines: En Rojo, Línea Plural, Taller Literario, Cupey, Luz en Arte y Literatura, Carpeta de Poesía Luz, Visible and Literal. His book of short stories, Cuestión de hombres, was published by The Latino Press (CUNY). His most recent books of poetry, Cartas a la sombra de tu piel (2002) and Elegías de septiembre (2003) were published in collaboration with Editorial Tierra Firme in Mexico City. Currently Mr. Pastoriza Iyodo lives in Florida and is the coordinating editor for the bilingual cultural magazines, Visible and Literal. He has just completed a new collection of poetry and a second book of short stories. His novel, The Waters of Paradise, should be published soon. E-Mail Me... Visit My Website: http://www.BenitoPastorizaIyodo.com/ My Newest Book: https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=36016  ;void(0)) Literary Awards
First prize in the competition: Voces Selectas 1997, Carpetas de Poesía Luz Bilingüe, for the book of poetry, Y bien tu piel, Luz Bilingual Publishing, Inc., 1997. ATENEO PUERTORRIQUEÑO AWARD, short story, El indiscreto encanto, 1990. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHICANO LATINO LITERARY PRIZE, for the book of poetry, Lo coloro de lo incoloro, 1980. (http://www.humanities.uci.edu/spanishandportuguese/cllp/History.htm) ATENEO PUERTORRIQUEÑO AWARD, for the book of poetry, Gotas verdes para la ciudad, 1977. POETRY AWARD for Canción para la existencia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey, 1976. POETRY AWARD for Hojas, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey, 1975.    ;void(0)) Cartas a la sombra de tu piel
Benito Pastoriza Iyodo ISBN: 9709339400 Pages: 80 (Retail = $12.95) w/15% discount = $11.01 + $2.00 shipping Navigating the parameters of Cartas a la sombra de tu piel (Letters to the shadow of your love), a vortex of melodious verdant hues traps the reader in a jungle of premonitions. There, love becomes flesh, real to the tact of the other, the sweat of the beloved, the man’s skin … and yet transcending the corporal, the material. This journey leads to unknown lands, inaugurated by a love that creates and re-creates itself in the sphere of a new reality where everyday variables do not apply, making it necessary to institute an unwritten language to describe this world, this world of love. Endorsements: • Book Reviews: Diálogo, University of Puerto Rico, Nuevos Tiempos and El Vocero, Puerto Rico, El Día, Houston, TX, GayChile.com • Saliendo del closet, Puerto Rican Radio Review Excerpt: El Día - daily Spanish-language newspaper in Houston, TX (trans. excerpt) - "Short poems with the soul of the Caribbean. … But one after the other, the verses uncover new, different sensations, while transmitting vibrant images when the words acquire their collective significance in Spanish, English or both languages alternating. Cartas a la sombra de tu piel (Letters to the shadow of your love) breaks with convention and dares to look at love from another perspective, with the strength of an inner voice that fights to make itself heard and it is successful. To do this it does not resort to complicated turns of phrase, but instead it is nurtured by everyday terms, bringing to mind objects, situations, moments recreated in the mind with astonishing simplicity and at the same time manifesting all of the beauty of contemporary poetry." URL links for reviews and excerpts in Spanish are as follows: http://www.vocero.com/noticia.asp?n=26221 http://espanol.geocities.com/losperdedores2003/pastoriza.htm http://www.GayChile.com/esp/det_news.php?cont=422 ;void(0)) Cuestión de hombres
Benito Pastoriza Iyodo ISBN 1884912087 Pages: 77 $9.95 + $2.00 shipping Cuestión de Hombres (A Matter of Men) navigates the treacherous waters of masculine sexuality, plotting the conditions that define manhood: from the boy initiated in the ritual unique to his sex to the youth who discovers the terror of a perverse act. The book presents various masculine stereotypes: from the super macho to the closeted homosexual, with variations in between. The journey in search of masculinity includes incursions ranging from a character besieged by unwanted devotion to deceitful pleasure and the purest of loves. Review 1: This book is a review of the concept of manhood and the complex game of social-cultural existence. Recommended. La Información, Houston (It´s not easy to be a man.) Review 2: This book explores the distinct variations of masculine identity as well as the geographical spaces of Puerto Rican lives. Libroguia, Puerto Rico ;void(0)) Elegías de septiembre
Benito Pastoriza Iyodo ISBN: 9709339419 Pages: 72 (Retail = $10.95) w/15% discount = $9.31 + $2.00 shipping In light of recent Earth-shattering events, September Elegies appears as a prophetic reflection of the world cast in Greco-Latin hues. It offers a philosophical-poetic analysis of man’s self-destructive reality in contrast with the forces of creation. A dialectic generates vivid tension: love-indolence, abundance-misery, peace and order-war and chaos. This work contains a sensual longing, a creative play of implacable intelligence that renounces the silence that covers us with a cloak of complicity. For the author there is a vestige of hope for harmonious coexistence with other beings, with the world and with all things through the interactive solutions yet to be proffered by the reader. Excerpt (translated) from the Prologue by Estela Porter Seale Benito Pastoriza is, without a doubt, one of the most distinguished exponents of postmodern poetic expression. An attentive observer of a decadent and oppressive reality, he employs a wide spectrum of human emotions to create explosive and sensual poetry that confronts without imposing solutions... September Elegies exudes originality in its idiomatic construction, where each word enhances the underlying message pulsing beneath the poetic form... This genial poet utilizes multiple turns, licenses and sharp neologisms to create images and evocations, exhuming forgotten meanings to achieve an always-intensifying ideological expression. ...This work could be described as a thesis condemning optimistic rationalism ...[that believes] “ours is the best of all possible worlds”, advocating against all forms of extreme individualism that diminish the possibility of a harmonious coexistence with all things.... Link to a review in Spanish: http://gaychile.com/esp/fashion/det_news.php?cont=608 Visit My Website: http://www.BenitoPastorizaIyodo.com/ Book Titles Available | | The BANYON NETWORK | Betty Byers | Whitlow Synopsis | INNER-VIEWS WITH CELEBRITIES | ECLECTIC REVIEWS | BOOK REVIEWER'S CORNER | The NEWS | SHORT STORIES CORNER | | Return Home | GREAT LINKS | WHAT'S NEW? | CONTACT US | |
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