Amor En Desamor

A Mexican-born poet and humanistic essayist fascinated with the nuiances of written and verbal imagination continues his exploration of the constant interplay of literature and art with life, being, and existence.

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...

Me atrevo a bosquejar a la poeta que se perfila en Cimarrona, el libro de Lillian Guerra. Se trata de una cubana insatisfecha por la imposibilidad de alcanzar un amor pleno por culpa de las prohibiciones históricas de la cultura, y los actuales prejuicios que guían la conducta sexual, inclusive los más “avanzados” que condenan el machismo, y que pudiéramos poner bajo la rúbrica del feminismo. No hay ñoñerías pasadas ni vigentes en Cimarrona, la hipocresía queda totalmente descartada. La liberación que anhela la voz de mujer que habla en estos poemas es aquella que le permita...

The poetry in this book have a great variability from romance to diverse themes, but the first poem of this selected collection Del Otro Lado del Oceano is dedicated to the valentry of those Cubans that lost their life in search of liberty while attempting to leave the country on hand made vessels and to the lives of those that made it to USA.