Mercury House and Ballantine Books published three of my novels, all to high critical praise. My book of short stories, Little Bridget and The Flames of Hell, was recently published on Amazon.com.
The swirl of a new fashion season makes its way down the runway. The beautiful models, so enhanced by the artfully-designed dress or gown, by the sensuous sway of the well-appointed evening wrap or the gathering of motion in abrupt color and surprising embroidery, what the poet Robert Herrick is describing when he writes “Next, when I cast mine eyes and see/That brave vibration each way free. ...
Among the many, many unusual kinds of poems that Pablo Neruda wrote, his Elemental Odes are justifiably celebrated. He produced an abundance of them, odes to just about everything including the most domestic of everyday articles. . . innumerable objects, pieces of homey flotsam, the stuff of every day life and his constantly wandering thoughts about how they could be shown in verse. One that I ...
The Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti died in Montevideo on May 17. A novelist, essayist, short story writer, poet and apologist for tango, Benedetti wrote more than sixty books and has long been considered a major figure in Latin American writing of the last half-century. He was also a political figure, having been pursued by the Uruguayan military junta in the 1970’s for his indiscreet ...
