Scholars and casual investigators will find themselves delightfully engaged with the lively prose of this specialized two-volume encyclopedia, which, in spite of classically academic source research, reads like a series of popular... Read More

Forget butterflies. Forget apron strings, broken hearts, and the anomie of a perpetual teenage romanticism that many readers still expect from Hispanic women’s poetry. In her introduction to this unusual assemblage of poets, the editor... Read More

“The Line” is the border between California and Baja (or “Lower”) California. Editor Polkinhorn’s prefatory remarks illuminate the perils and marvels of this frontier, the literary and political significance of which is only... Read More

An irrepressible splash of color links the forty-two poems in this new collection, an appreciation of the play of refracted light evident in many of the titles: “The Pomegranate,” “Black Cherries,” “Baroque Pearl,” “The Red... Read More

Ecstasy through sex? Lest the concept titillate, let it be known that this book will hardly replace the standard Gideon Bible at the bedside in cheap motels. It’s not a self-help manual for one-night stands. On the contrary, it is a... Read More

On a primary school field trip to the zoo, David, age six, lets go his companion’s hand, jumps over the retaining wall and flings himself into the pool where the seals are being fed. Oscar is in third grade, but when reading aloud he... Read More

With the brute authenticity of a voice that has been there and done that, this Chilean poet opens his first bilingual edition of poems with a section titled “Desaparecer,” translated as “To Miss, Be Missed, Missing.” Ranging from... Read More

The author, a Venezuelan dream analyst, offers a persuasive exegesis of the value and significance of dreams. He argues that “because dreaming is an integral part of our being, it’s necessary that one should understand what it means,... Read More