Bruce Dean Willis

is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on diverse aspects of poetry and performance, and expressions of Indigenous and African cultures, in Latin American literature, particularly Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

TIME FOR CHOCOLATE is available for purchase through One Act Play Depot! A brief description:

An intoxicating evening of music, poetry, and chocolate... in pre-conquest Mexico!
Based on a fifteenth-century dialogue among nobles schooled in rhetoric and philosophy, the play pits father against son in a war of words over the power and beauty of artistic expression.

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Americatlas

Nevados paisajes septentrionales:
longitudes descienden ríos helados,
lagos por canoas atravesados,
pueblos con bienes, redes transversales. 

Cordilleras que acaban tropicales:
cabos, islas, volcanes emplumados,
terrenos por manos pardas sembrados,
abundantes lluvias ecuatoriales. 

El águila y el cóndor, por los vientos,
espían picos blancos, playas mansas,
selvas talladas pero renacidas. 

Sobrevuelan el cono estrecho cientos 
de aves que ejecutan aéreas danzas.
Hasta el finisterra son detenidas.