
A BOOK OF POEMS AL QUE QUIERE!
SUB TERRA
PASTORAL
CHICKORY AND DAISIES - I.
METRIC FIGURE
WOMAN WALKING
GULLS
APPEAL
IN HARBOR
WINTER SUNSET
A vibrant tapestry of verse invites listeners into a world where the ordinary and the uncanny intertwine. The poet’s language shifts effortlessly between lush, sun‑lit landscapes and gritty urban corners, drawing images of stubborn shrubs breaking through new soil, cracked earth under bitter stems, and gulls drifting over winter rivers. With a mix of Spanish phrases and English lyricism, the collection feels both intimate and expansive, offering meditations on growth, loss, and the quiet power of everyday moments.
The pieces pulse with vivid sensory details—bright leaves imagined as yellow fish, clouds of purple smoke framing a modest village, and the rhythmic cadence of a child’s playful teasing of daisies. Themes of resilience and yearning surface through recurring motifs of nature’s stubborn beauty and the humble lives of those living on the margins. Listeners will find themselves moving between pastoral reverie and stark realism, discovering a poetic voice that celebrates both the fragile and the fierce in equal measure.
Language
en
Duration
~52 minutes (49K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Meredith Bach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2016-05-04
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1883–1963
A doctor who wrote some of America’s most memorable modern poems, he found wonder in ordinary things and everyday speech. His work helped shape a distinctly American voice in 20th-century poetry.
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