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"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferre writes in the title poem of "Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fire and power." Ferre explores this tension throughout this explosive collection, which plays with the sensual differences between the languages and lays bare many of the complications facing an increasingly bilingual America. In these poems, Miami is celebrated as a modern Tower of Babel and a place where the layers of history are particularly palpable. Wave after wave of conquerors wash across the Americas. A well-dressed Latino businessman inadvertently reveals his roots at the Ritz when someone steps on his foot, eliciting a profanity--in Spanish. Intimate snapshots capture the nameless heroism of homeless men, the exuberance of a child's affection for her hometown, and memories of lovers. "El espanol y el ingles han estado en guerra desde que la Reina Isabel hundii la Armada Invencible en el 1588," escribe Rosario Fere en "Duelo del lenguaje," el poema que da t'tulo a esta colecciin; "los lenguajes llevan con sigo todo su fuego y poderio." Ferre explora las tensiones entre lenguas y culturas a traves de esta colecciin de caracter controversial, que senala muchos de los dilemas a los que se enfrenta hoy una America cada vez mas bilingue. Estos poemas celebran tanto la antiquisima ciudad San Juan como las metripolis mas modernas: Miami, Nueva York, WDC. Pasado y presente, historia y sociedad se mezclan con una inmediatez sorprendente. Ola tras ola de conquistadores estalla sobre Norte America; un hombre de negocios bien vestido inesperadamente revela sus raices cuando alguien leda un pisotin en el elevador del Ritz y suelta una maldiciin.

A New Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game from Chaosium Inc. Cthulhu Dark Ages 950 A.D. -- The world is torn apart: empires and kingdoms have endured two centuries of invasions, and now warlords fight over the remains like wild dogs. The clergy is weak and morally depraved, cities are depopulated, trade is stagnant and violence reigns everywhere. History is coming into the Sixth Age of humankind, the ultimate age before the end of the world. The Byzantine Theodoras Philetas translated the Al Azif into Greek, and renames it the Necronomicon. It will take one century before that blasphemous tome is finally condemned, and most copies destroyed. CTHULHU DARK AGES continues with Lovecraft's sinister tradition of men and women struggling against the dark forces of the Cthulhu Mythos, but in a time nearly one thousand years before Lovecraft's birth. CTHULHU DARK AGES is a compleat roleplaying game using Chaosium's classic Basic Roleplaying System. All you need to play are some dice and some friends. For more info, or graphics contact mailto: dustin@chaosium.