Tal vez el crecimiento de un jardín sea la única forma en que los muertos pueden hablarnos

Es este un libro punzante, cruel, irónico, escrito con un lenguaje exteriorista, pero poblado de metáforas y símbolos que aluden recurrentemente al borramiento de la persona, al hundimiento de la rebeldía.

Entrega a Caronte representa el viaje hacia la Ítaca interior de la autora, el espacio íntimo donde albergan recuerdos, pérdidas, vivencias, amores. Ítaca es el puerto, el territorio de quien conquista la existencia y el conocimiento después de visitar muchos lugares, diversas gentes, madurar experiencias. Y Rosa Yamilet Calcines Martínez, como un moderno Ulises, emprende un viaje psicológico, en ocasiones dulce y agradable, otras duro y severo, buscando desahogar los contrastes interiores para encontrar un refugio emocional. Con incomparable gracia y habilidad, la autora estiliza en...

"Voz de mi Raza" (Voice of my People) is comprised of several topics, however its main focus is on social issues. The pages within contain the complaints, lamentations, and protests of the oppressed against social injustices. It is a reflection of the pain experienced by our people as well as the dreams and yearnings for an authentic liberty without constraints from the dominating political and economic powers. It is the cry that surges from the effervescence of pain, fatigue, misery and hope for the peace that will not be whilst all avenues leading to it are blocked by nefarious social...

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...