Happy Creature in Words: Historias cortas y Poemas

In as our barrio turns...who the yoke b on, alurista poet-filetero filosofo snaps shots of his singular history in wickedly funny, blashemous travelogues through his yourth and activist days. He twists our tongues in the vernacular that we as Chicano Mexicanos find snugly familiar and exhilarating.

A selection of poetry, published between 1995 and 2001, features poems that later were made into songs that appear in both versions, and includes works presented in reverse chronological order, with the idea that the reader, by having access to this work through the newest and nearest door, will soon be tempted to open other doors, as if doing an inventory.

Los poemas contenidos en este libro son el testimonio alquímico de un profundo proceso espiritual de muerte y resurrección, que coincidió con los dos años en que su autor comenzó su camino en la Tradición Ogdoádica y fue iniciado en la Ordo Aurum Solis. Escritos como invocaciones, como senderos a un instante en el tiempo de transformación interior, estos poemas son un templo donde lo erótico y lo numinoso se abrazan en el éxtasis del anhelo y el encuentro con la Amante Mística. Abren un espacio al sentimiento de la búsqueda por un vida más noble en la Luz de la Conciencia y...

The poems are the new sacred texts of the present, even those who claim to be profane. Sacred Texts New Collection, directed by Antoni Mari, celebrates its twenty years just when Tusquets Editores celebrates their Forty's. An anthology chosen from a pool of extraordinarily and distinguished and extensive texts in the present and past of Hispanic history.