Amor y Desamor

Catullus is a companion of lovers and of those whom love has disappointed. He is also a satirical and epigrammatic writer who savagely consoles with laughter. Carmina captures in English both the mordant, scathing wit and also the concise tenderness, the famous love for reluctant Lesbia who is made present in these new versions. A range of English metres and rhymes evokes the many modes and moods of this most engaging, erotic and influential of Latin poets. Of Len Krisak's translations of Horace, Frederic Raphael writes, [He] enables us both to enjoy a fresh voice and to hear (and see), very...

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...

La poesía de Francisco Luque Bonilla habla del corazón, del hombre que contempla con ternura la raíz del interés humano, lo hace con apasionamiento e impulso creador, desnudando el alma que te despierta del vacío, su corriente de poesía suele ir acompañada de un sentimiento profundo a la vida, donde contempla el mundo con esperanza, con una fe que nos confiesa en sus poemas toda la armonía, toda la conciencia en la palabra, libre, donde el pecho del artista no se rinde mostrando el rostro donde respirar, donde soñar viviendo los sentimientos, sin creer en semáforos rojos, él...

A collection by a New York "radio poet." In Bee, she writes: "Had afterthoughts about that kill. / Haunted by what / he might have gleaned / from daffodil and tulip, / horny, with his velvet pouch of summer. / Feel a bummer. / Know now, / should have left that bee / be." With illustrations.