Prosas de un peso Welter

Original and witty, this collection of poems is devoted to boxing and some of its champions. Alexis Gómez Rosa (1950) is considered one of the most important contemporary Dominican poets. He is also fiction writer and essayist. His publications include the following poetry collections: Oficio de post-muerde (1973); Pluróscopo (1977); High Quality, Ltd. (1985); Contra la pluma la espuma (1990); Tiza y tinta (1991); New York en tránsito de pie quebrado (1993); Si Dios quiere y otros versos por encargo (1996); Self Service Poems (2000); Adagio cornuto (2001); Lápida circa y otros epitafios de la torre abolida (2004), Tregua de los mamíferos (2005), Ferryboat (Premio Nacional de Poesía Salomé Ureña de Henríquez, 2006).