Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Edited by Yvette Neiser Moreno. "Reading DIFFICULT BEAUTY, one savors the shadows of [Ambroggio's] words as well as the heat of their emotion. One reads these poems for their gliding notes. It is as though the poet, as pilot, knows that the ship of his verse moves through a realm that is dazzling, fragile, and formidable. Ambroggio beckons us to take flight with him, to experience the world as he sees it with joy, awe, and striking reverence."—Oscar Hijuelos

Author City: WASHINGTON, DC USA

Luis Alberto Ambroggio, an internationally known Hispanic-American poet born in Argentina, has resided in the Washington, DC area since 1967. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry published in Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, and the United States, and is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and of International PEN. In 2004, he won the Spanish TV Award for poems on solitude. In 2008, the North American Academy of the Spanish Language published a book on Ambroggio's poetry, El Cuerpo y la Letra. His poetry and essays have appeared in the U.S. and abroad in newspapers, magazines (including Passport, Scholastic, International Poetry Review, and Hispanic Culture Review), poetry anthologies (DC Poets Against the War, Cool Salsa), and textbooks (Paisajes, Bridges to Literature, Voices: Breaking Down Barriers). His poetry has been recorded in the Archives of Hispanic Literature of the Library of Congress and has been translated into several languages.