Semillas De Vida

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...

El libro que tiene en sus manos es una recopilación de los poemas escritos por el Autor a lo largo de toda una vida. La belleza de la mujer y el Amor han sido las fuentes de inspiración de la mayor parte de esta obra escrita de forma sencilla, directa al corazón del lector.

En Manuel de cordura, continúa con la profundización social de la obra anterior del autor, Poemas para perros (Point de Lunettes, 2007). Junto al cuestionamiento de ciertos convencionalismmos sociales, el autor dedica también este nuevo libro a distintos viajes que le han marcado, así como a una reinterpretación personal del mito de Ulises y del viaje.

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...