Mi mundo es mío y tuyo también

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...

Provocative essays on poetry, ballet, and Cuban and world literature by one of Cuba's and Latin America's greatest poets. The only edition authorized by the late poet's estate.

"Campos de Castilla"es un libro que intenta explicar cómo cualquier tipo de acto, bueno o malo, tiene consecuencias. El más llamativo es sin duda el asesinato del padre a manos de sus propios hijos, y cómo estos son “ajusticiados” finalmente por una “justicia divina”. La temática de amplio espectro abarca un gran número de tópicos que pasan por el retrato de la visión de Castilla que adopta el escritor o su preocupación política por España. La obra también muestra su mayor objetividad e indaga en nuevos terrenos poéticos -como son las gentes del entorno, los aspectos...

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.