Y no podréis callar este grito que os hiere

Francisco Bustos eloquently writes of Colonia Ruiz Cortinez and Barrio San Ysidro, waiting in la linea to be scrutinized by U.S. Customs officials, and of the bi-national journey of living both in the United States and Mxico. His melodic tone defies the fast-paced world of schedules, while being actively engaged in the moment, and then fleeting down another street to encounter another tale. As es la vida qu no?, Bustos says, As es. Michael Cheno Wickert focuses mainly on living in the barrios of Southeast San Diego where life often turns toward violence and suspicion is commonplace. It is a...

In as our barrio turns...who the yoke b on, alurista poet-filetero filosofo snaps shots of his singular history in wickedly funny, blashemous travelogues through his yourth and activist days. He twists our tongues in the vernacular that we as Chicano Mexicanos find snugly familiar and exhilarating.

En su obra Ni visible, ni palpable (El Ala del Tigre, núm. 01) explora, paradójicamente, la tensión y la complicidad que existe entre lo que no es visible, ni palpable y la materialidad del cuerpo. Paisaje, receptáculo, madeja de sentidos, materia que crece entre otras formas de vida: aquí, con elegancia y agudeza por igual, el cuerpo se vuelve tanto objeto de contemplación como su propia porosidad perceptiva.

LOS PEDAZOS DE MI, MIS HERMANOS COMO BRAZOS RODEANDO MI HISTORIA, MI HIJO COMO EL CORAZON QUE ME PERMITE VIVIR Y MULTIPLICARME, LOS AMORES ANTIGUOS Y PRESENTES, LOS GRANDES ACONTECIMIENTOS Y LAS COSAS SIMPLES DE MI VIDA, SON LA CAUSA DE ESTA DULCE LOCURA LLAMADA: "MUJER DESNUDA" MARGARITA CARDENAS."