Cuaderno de Vias Paralelas

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...

Rimas y Más es la recopilación de esa poesía inédita y muda que inspiró a una novelista para adentrarse en laberinto de la mente de un poeta. La obra dividida en tres partes recoge las inquietudes existenciales de un soñador. Contiene además relatos, reflexiones y anédotas basadas en experiencias, siempre con un fondo existencial. Esta magistral obra tiene como precedente la que en su momento significó la fusión entre el poeta y la narradora en Ataraxia, título que fue publicado recientemente y que se completa con otro trabajo en común, Ataraxia II, que será publicado en breve.

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed—having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere—is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican...

Poesía —sobre las tormentas y tormentos de la existencia— que navega entre el realismo y el surrealismo, la ironía, la paradoja y lo tragicómico.