Las dos orillas de mi vida

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...

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

Intimando con la tinta es una colecci-n de 61 poemas creados por Miguel Bustos, madrile-o enamorado de la palabra escrita, desde 2008 hasta 2015. Siete a-os de poes'a divididos en 5 cap'tulos que los divide en categor'as. En Filosofando, Observando la vida, En movimiento, Madrid, Naturaleza y Lo m+s 'ntimo; el autor transmite su punto de vista sobre el d'a a d'a y los temas que m+s le apasionan, haciendo un gui-o constante al ferrocarril y a los viajes. Vivencias propias, ajenas e incluso ficticias tienen cabida en esta obra, considerada la -pera prima del escritor. Trabajo en el que lo...

I am honored to dedicate my poetry in English and Spanish to the world and specially in these difficult times that we have . I know that my experiences that I have had since my early childhood have given me solutions for many of the challenges that our world faces today. I support the protection of the environment since I believe that it is our duty to protect what God has given us, and not to to be destructive to flora and fauna; and that wars between humans should be resolved in a peaceful and cordial way. I also address homelessness, drug abuse, abuse of the elderly , and to prayerfully...