A Sun Behind Us / Un sol caído avanza

An illuminating new collection from the latest winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, selected by Germán Guerra and granted by the National Poetry Series; published in both English and Spanish

MARÍA AUXILIADORA ÁLVAREZ’S winning entry of the Paz Prize for Poetry is in many ways a loving memoriam to her father, Oswaldo Álvarez Rojas, and a celebration of the long embrace that still warms María, her seven siblings, and their mother. Her poems explore sunlight as a metaphor for her father, holding...