Francisco Aragsn extends the map of Latino poetry in this bilingual collection. Taking its title from the central plaza in Madrid, it chronicles an overseas journey both public and private. Life in the capital -- taking in jazz at a cafi after dark, navigating the underground landscapes of the Metro to and from work -- is interwoven with the more interior realms of loss in poems that mourn a parent, retrace the steps of a late mentor, or express the collective grief borne of terrorism. The work, in essence, inhabits a seldom explored bicultural space: for Aragsn the author is also Aragsn the translator, shaping with his own hand Spanish versions of all these poems, thereby embodying the years he shuttled between his native California and his adopted Spain. "Francisco Aragon's poetry has the clarity of the bright winter sky and the emotional force of high summer." -- Richard Rodriguez

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The book was written as a companion volume for the authors most recent work, Bayonets and Bougainvilleas. In this volume the author presents the verbatim text of two major source documents for that work; his fathers ORAL HISTORY and his mothers TRAVEL JOURNAL, with his own added commentary. The HISTORY is the text of General Blakes official interview with Marine Corps historian Benis Frank covering the Generals Marine Corps career 1917-1949. The JOURNAL is the transcript of journal entries and letters written by the authors mother during travels abroad and in the USA from 1931 to 1941. The authors commentary weaves his mothers words into a continuous narrative covering the Blakes twenty-three year married life. Taken as a whole the book offers and unusual picture of military life in the separate words of the husband and the wife.