Product Description: La serie poética titulada Apócrifo nombra un sorbido torrente de lumbrales que, consigo, proclaman el verdadero rostro de Eros. Dios consigo, dios amante del olvido, Eros sombra cúspide de la búsqueda entre líneas sufridas, arrastradas, enloquecidas por pasión, quizá lujuria, quizá amor o, lo más cercano, la desilusión...read more

Product Description: Al igual que el mítico Pigmalión, el poeta Edwin Torres rinde su arte a la exaltación de la musa y el sentimiento. Galatea presenta una refrescante visión de la psiquis masculina, que no teme ser sensible, delirante o tierna. Cada poema es un monólogo que versa sobre el estado de enamoramiento, los vaivenes románticos, el deseo y la angustia...read more

Product Description: In this vibrant reflection of sound and word, poet Edwin Torres reignites the possibilities of poetry. From poems like “Me No Habla Spic,” a rumination of life’s major moments, to “Fixative,” which exercises shifting vantage points, Torres is nimble—surfing through memory, definition, and forms of social address...read more

Product Description: Poet and performer Edwin Torres’s extraordinary new book emerges in five riveting sections with a thematic undercurrent examining the body, love, journey, direction, and talk. These poems, intimate and expansive, use lyrical tone as an entry into communication, allowing experimental pieces and quiet poems to coexist...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Edwin Torres's poetry—full of complex graphic experiments and daring sonic explorations—opens new creative possibilities, simultaneously challenging and delighting our intelligence. Coming on strong with humor and mystery, Edwin Torres spins magical multilingual webs of words intended to change the world...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Using "ambient language"-fragments, excerpts, stage directions, echoes, conversation snippets, syntactic undulation, and rigorous sonic chaos-Edwin Torres creates an alchemy of language, what he calls "electrobabble" and "algorithmictotem...read more

A drug dealer, thief, and killer, Carlito Brigante begins to change as he grows older, realizing that being a gangster is a game for younger men and facing the inevitable changes on the street that will make him obsolete. Reprint.

Product Description: This is the story of the irrepressible Carlo Brigante, Puerto Rican hustler, drug dealer, survivor and great talker. He evokes his doomed world of New York's Spanish Harlem - a streetwise life in the fast lane, with no exit, both brutal and hilarious...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Associated with both the spoken word and avant-garde literary communities of New York City, Edwin Torres has carved out an energetic and suggestive space between those worlds, mapping out a prospective direction for American poetry...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Latino/a Studies. This is the newest volume of poetry from the SUBPRESS COLLECTIVE, a group of poets who have pledged a portion of their income each year to support the eventual publication of all poets in the collective. Torres's poems are visually striking, using a variety of layout and design strategies, but they are equally interesting for the way seemingly-autobiographical moments filter into and through the formal fractures...read more

Product Description: Older and wiser after five years inside, Carlito Brigante, Puerto Rican heavy hitter and drug dealer is looking to slow down, maybe get out of the whole scene. But as a name with a rep to uphold it's tough, and Carlito needs to pull in some money somehow.

This powerful, gritty, and vivid novel is the unforgettable story of Carlito Brigante, a Harlem drug dealer in the 1960s, and his rise to the top. Drug dealer, thief, and murdered, Carlito Brigante was once just another Spanish Harlem street punk with a poor boy's dream of flash and fast money -- but as he gets older he determines that it's either take or be taken, and he knows which role he intends to play. Soon he's a mob-connected professional with an easy charm, joie de vivre, stubborn pride, and hair-trigger temper. But the rules change rapidly in a sudden-death world of scams, sell-outs, and payback, where only the strongest and smartest predator can be king of the barrio. And when there's a major changing of the guard in the top echelons of the mob, Carlito will have some hard choices to make. Taut, thrilling, and a joy to read, Carlito's Way established a voice that has lost none of its vivid color or power to enthrall.

Product Description: This fictional biography is based on the life of a Puerto Rican New Yorker whose ethics gets him involved with gangsters. 4 cassettes.