Poemarios y antologías, con los premios y la crítica que recibió cada uno.
Libros
Anthology
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Antologia della poesia costaricana
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Il fiore della poesia latinoamericana d’oggi
Edited by Emilio Coco. A panorama of recent Latin American poetry in Italian translation; first volume, Mexico, Central America and the islands.
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El canon abierto: última poesía en español (1970–1985)
Nearly two hundred scholars from more than a hundred universities (Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, Princeton among them) selected the most relevant poets writing in Spanish born after 1970.
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Resistencia en la tierra
Edited by Federico Díaz-Granados. Fifty-four new poets from Spain and the Americas who have made verse not only a refuge but a tribune.
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Región: antología del cuento político latinoamericano
Fiction. The genealogy of the Latin American political short story: denunciation, the abuses of the State, political uprising and injustice.
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Sostener la palabra: antología de poesía costarricense
Poetry
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Cine Fractal: Antología personal 2005–2023
Gold Medal, International Latino Book Awards 2023 (Best Poetry Anthology)
A personal anthology spanning two decades of work, from Natación nocturna to Lazarus and unpublished poems written in the United States. Back cover text by Raúl Zurita.
“One of the best and most necessary poems written in recent years by a Costa Rican poet.”
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Lazarus
Manuel Acuña International Poetry Prize in Spanish 2021
A retelling of the myth of Saint Lazarus and of Plath’s Lady Lazarus: a game of dualities between past and present, life and death, and an homage to the voices that precede us. Awarded by unanimous decision of a jury formed by Vicente Undurraga, María Baranda, and María Negroni.
“Llevando a sus límites la idea de la paradoja, esta poesía trastoca los cimientos de lo que podíamos entender por un yo, por una cultura, por una lengua. Irguiéndose desde su propia muerte, Lazarus visita a los poetas muertos para decirnos una de las frases más bellas que nos puede mostrar la poesía de hoy: “Ir tras tus pasos / es siempre dar con los míos”.”
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A ella le gusta llorar mientras escucha The Beatles
Best Poetry Collection Published in Costa Rica (third place), Literofilia, 2014. A B-side of the twentieth century: the social, cultural, and technological shifts of a generation born at its close.
“Any situation can be seen from another perspective or angle that gives it new light. Cruz discovers the other side of these memories, whose side B keeps us listening.”
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Treinta y tres escalones para una espiral
Personal anthology.
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Trasatlántico
VII Premio Mesoamericano de Poesía Luis Cardoza y Aragón · Best Poetry Collection Published in Costa Rica, Literofilia, 2013
Written during the author’s years in Honduras, with a prologue by Eduardo Chirinos. The ship is both the vehicle of the journey and a figure for the many ways of reading. Its poem “Los inmigrantes” was published in English translation by the Academy of American Poets in 2025.
“Estamos ante la movilidad de un trasatlántico que es, al mismo tiempo, una brújula inmóvil. La invitación al viaje se convierte en una invitación a la lectura: el espectáculo de una voz que nos revela en voz baja los avatares de su memoria.”
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Natación nocturna
Premio Nacional Joven Creación 2004
First collection, awarded Costa Rica’s national prize for writers under 35.
“Un chapuzón poético ferozmente desilusionado, en cuyo fondo relumbra una escritura que trata de armar un rompecabezas imposible de su realidad: una realidad espesa, irredimible, alucinante.”