La vida está llena de pasajes que terminan por conformar toda una poesía, el autor consciente de ello, ha querido expresar sus vivencias a su propio estilo poético. Este libro contiene poemas donde el autor fuerza a rimar los versos en una estructura clásica, alcanzando en su gran mayoría el estilo de los grandes poetas del pasado. Un corazón poético encuentra su centro de inspiración y nuestro autor encontró el suyo en la expresión más sublime de la mujer, a la que claramente le dedica su obra. Sin implicar una división explícita, los poemas en la obra se encuentran diferenciados conforme a las distintas formas de expresión de sus sentimientos como lo es la juventud, el amor, decepción, tristeza, toque erótico, el homenaje, unos cuantos de reflexión y muy pocos de género macabro. El autor nos aclara el porqué el título de esta obra incluye la expresión "algo más", al decirnos que incluyó textos que motivan a la reflexión, sobre dos asuntos que angustian su corazón de poeta y siente la necesidad de darlos a conocer. Actualmente como profesor jubilado de la Universidad de Guadalajara, vive en la ciudad del mismo nombre en Jalisco, México. Email: [email protected]

This is the definitive bibliography of autobiographical writings on Mexico. The book incorporates works by Mexicans and foreigners, with authors ranging from disinherited peasants, women, servants and revolutionaries to more famous painters, writers, singers, journalists and politicians. Primary sources of historic and artistic value, the writings listed provide multiple perspectives on Mexico's past and give clues to a national Mexican identity. This work presents 1,850 entries, including autobiographies, memoirs, collections of letters, diaries, oral autobiographies, interviews, and autobiographical novels and essays. Over 1,500 entries list works from native-born Mexicans written between 1691 and 2003. Entries include basic bibliographical data, genre, author's life dates, narrative dates, available translations into English, and annotation. The bibliography is indexed by author, title and subject, and appendices provide a chronological listing of works and a list of selected outstanding autobiographies.

This volume springs from that fruitful project of scientific cooperation between the humanities departments of Università di Firenze and University of Arizona which was the Forum for the Study of the Literary Cultures of the Southwest (2000-2007). Tri-cultural, at least (Native, Hispanic and Anglo-American), and multi-lingual, today's Southwest presents a complex coexistence of different cultures, the equal of which would be hard to find elsewhere in the United States. Of this virtually inexhaustible object of study, the essays here collected tackle an ample range of themes. While the majority of them are concerned with the literatures of the Southwest, still a good third falls into the fields of history, art history, ethnography, sociology or cultural studies. They are partitioned in four sections, the first three reflecting the chronology of the stratification of the three major cultures and the fourth highlighting one of the most sensitive topics in and about contemporary Southwest - the borderlands/la frontera