This book taps into the heart and soul of anyone who has ever been in love. This includes both relationships that have succeeded and those that have soured. The poems are not only about love in relationships, but also love of nature, family, and life itself. The author tries to incorporate a variety of styles of poetry, such as sonnets and romances, among others. She modestly admits that she is by no means an expert in these classical styles. However, they are definitely among her favorites and she wants to share them with you.

Mis Poemas y Canciones revelan sentimientos que buscan su expresión en las letras y en la música. Letras que pueden dar viva o estar muertas. Música que te alegra y te recuerda o lágrimas que brotan sin saber cómo detenerlas. Son inspiraciones que buscan un escape de lo más profundo del corazón. Revelando experiencias mías o ajenas, revelando alegrías o penas, revelando ironías o tristezas.

Este libro es una mezcla de hechos de mi vida, donde hay una búsqueda de Dios y de realidad. Lo escribí como una necesidad de expresar visions, premoniciones y sueños insólitos que tuve. Considero que deben llegar a la gente; que cada persona haga una interpretacíon de lo leído, y lo acepte, o no, como una realidad possible.

“Poemas en Tránsito” is a poetry book narrating my personal experiences, as I commute to work in the number 1 Train, which runs from 242nd Street in the Bronx to Battery Park, in Manhattan. In the poems, I use the kaleidoscope of sounds, visuals and people in the subway to relate some of my experiences. In its totality, the book is a compendium of poems selected from my poetic production starting in 1976, under the guidance of my illustrious and respected, Professor Jaime Montesinos. His intellectual infl uence and guidance were the midwives of this book.

“Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.”—Denise Levertov Champion of the International Poetry Slam, winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the prestigious International Award, Jimmy Santiago Baca has been writing as a mestizo (part Native American, part Mexican) and an outsider ever since he learned to read and write—in English—during a six-year Federal prison sentence when he was in his twenties. Drawing on his rich ethnic heritage and his life growing up in poverty in the Southwestern United States, Baca has a created a body of work which speaks to the disenfranchised by drawing on his experiences as a prisoner, a father, a poet, and by reflecting on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande valley. In response to increased demand for Latino poetry in Spanish, and to thousands of Baca fans who are bilingual, this unique collection contains Spanish translations of Baca’s poetry selected from the volumes Martín and Mediations on the South Valley (1987), Black Mesa Poems (1989), Immigrants in Our Own Land (1990), Healing Earthquakes (2001), C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004), and Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (2007).

A través de Poemas De Mi Corazón la autora comparte sus poemas, sencillos y bellos. Cada poema trasmite profundas emociones y genera sentimientos que tocan lo más profundo del corazón. Reflejos de personas que alguna vez amaron y no fueron correspondidas pero también de aquellas que encontraron el amor para toda la vida.