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Heaviness. Time nullifies the present, it poisons future words. Actions repeat themselves: I breathe the same air, the same place the same memories. Heaviness. In Los dioses sí hablan (The Gods, in Truth, Speak), Claudia Quackenbush voices her encapsulated feelings and experiences that she has enjoyed since her marital romance—maternal expressions, sociopolitical thoughts, even her intimate memories, sending the reader to a world of love which breaks barriers and envelops time. Through her poems, one can envision a love for God and nature, peace, optimism, nostalgia, illusions, desire, as...

“TU ERES EL AMOR” Me gustaría llegar a tus praderas, cortar las flores, perfumar tu Bohío, bañarme en las aguas de tu rio, y sembrar tus tierras como se hace en primavera. Comer Ios frutos de tu higuera, y sembrar en ella la semilla. Correr mis manos par la orilla, Podando Ios rizos de la tierra. Enredarme como flor en tus cabellos, y acariciar tu silueta, flexida por la unión de un beso y un suspiro. Morirme de amor entre tus bazos retorcidos, por el dolor que causa una vida nueva, y saber que tu tierra es fértil donde crece el amor, para que nunca muera.

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...

alma cuerpo boleros es la acumulación de años de sueños, vida, trova, buenas y malas compañías, vinos, amores, desengaños, cigarrillos, alegrías, malas y buenas noches, boleros, locuras y corduras.