Babel

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...

Poetry book in Spanish, translated into English. En el contenido de este mi segundo libro, expres poemas basados en amor, desamor, potencia, capacidad, poder, integridad y pesar. In the content of this, my second book, I express poems based on love, lack of love, capacity, power, integrity and regret.

Como expresión más depurada de una cultura, la poesía española discurre por un camino ya milenario en el que se ha enriquecido con las aportaciones de una multitud de poetas que, para manifestar sus más variados y profundos sentimientos, la han utilizado y enriquecido. Son diez siglos de fina decantación de sonidos, acentos y entonaciones: desde el quejido lastimero al susurro; del alarido al hablar quedo. Un océano de gargantas unidas en una voz común.

Ranging in subject from the life of the barrio to affairs of the heart, these poems transform the myths, ethos, and distinctive language of the Chicano community into a deeply personal poetry. Francisco Santana builds upon the Hispanic tradition of the poet who speaks for his pueblo in an original way.