Between 1942 and 1964, men from different parts of Mexico left their landsand families seeking an opportunity for prosperity in the Unites States asBraceros.
Silent Scream of a Blue Shadow is a thought provoking poetry book penned by a policeman who writes about emotions and feelings in short, often deep and dark poetic verses that tear away at the festering scabs of society.
The poems inAdult Night at Skate Worldsift out the glitter in the gravel, unearthing both heartbreak and moments of transcendence in the seemingly mundane.
Songbirds, recently released by Newman Springs Publishing, was originally written 25 years ago during a period of unemployment that led the author, RoseAnna Lucarelli, back to teaching and, left her little time to write.
Summer with Monika is an honest and touching portrait of a romance, charting the progress of a love affair from the delicious intimacy of the honeymoon, with the milk bottles turning to cheese on the doorstep, through the stage of quarrels, jealousy, recriminations and boredom, to the point where love is as nice as a cup of tea in bed.
With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships, and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are remarkable for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness.
