Mi atardecer oto–al (poemas y reflexiones del t’o To–o)

Winner of a 2002 American Book Award Winner of the 2002 Colorado Book Award in Poetry "The natural voice at work in the poetry sings of one human life as if it were our own. I loved listening." —Rita Kiefer, author of Nesting Doll "This just may be one of the best books of poetry I have ever read. . . . This is the kind of writing that give poetry a good name." —Mike Nobles, Tulsa World "Abeyta's poetry amazingly captures this struggle with poems that are simultaneously tortured and thankful, celebratory and melancholy, earthly and ethereal. . . . Poet Abeyta beautifully captures the...

El libro contiene una recopilación de cartas a lo largo de varios años, en su mayoría expreso el sentimiento de verme sola con dos adolescentes inteligentes y rebeldes, en una situación económica precaria causada por la depresión, dela ciudad tuve que salir para poder continuar con la vida, llevando de la mano a mis dos hijos. Día con día lo superamos tanto económica como emocionalmente, mi fuerza radica en ellos (mis hijos) y en los recuerdos que se encuentran en las cartas. Si en tu vida has tenido un "cabrón" o "cabrona" te vas a identificar.

The linguistic spectrum of Andrea Zanzotto's poetry spans from his native language, Venitian, to terms drawn from countless languages, both living and dead. His poetry also explores diverse forms of meaning, whether gibberish, children's songs, onomatopoeia, or silence--the expression of his singular uncertainty amid a world of agitation and forgetting that seems to inflict its injuries on its own landscape.

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...