Frank Varela’s Diaspora: Selected and New Poems
The inner flame holds afresh in this latest release. New poems by Frank Varela (b.1949) preceded by a tidy choice from those harvested...
The Off-modern Connection
Book prologue to Caleb’s Exile (2009) by Frank Varela. Once again, Frank Varela (Serpent Underfoot, 1993; Bitter Coffee, 2001) is about...
José Martí and Spain
The latest book by Manuel García-Guatas bridges a critical gap in the life of Cuba’s National Hero. Those well acquainted and with ears...
Desacralizing Cuba’s National Hero
Religious allegory may be dwarfing José Martí’s true stature. Fundamentalism since 9/11 reacts by attempting to re-institute its original...
The Buck Stops Here
This newly minted band in American roots tickles as when rocking one’s bare foot over a patch of sundrenched meadow sprouts. Just when...
Frank Varela’s Latest Collection of Poetry:
"Goya’s Birds"
The poet bests himself as he weds his upcoming collection to the art of the late mad and telling great master. That “noise in my head…,”...
José Martí on how to be Absolutely Modern
The revolutionary and great master of literature despised the writer tag while modernizing Latin America through his in-depth journalism....
Stefan Zweig Befriends Magellan
His friendly, literature-as-life approach keeps Magellan’s daring spirit alive. Literature as life—the claim has become cliché among...
Alejo Carpentier’s Latin America: Lost and Found
The master narrator found an ignored Latin America in the “unexpected alteration of reality” of her marvelous time warp. In the very last...
Marcuse’s Magic
The reluctant Father of the New Left nurtured ideas that boosted the reach of high art. In the hippie days of yore, the German...