EDITORS
Juan Cárdenas/ Bryce Milligan
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
J. Jesús Cardona Raphael Castillo
PUBLISHER
M&A Editions / MandA Publications
IN THIS ISSUE:
Franca Bacchiega
Mario Tierra
Linda Hogan
Casimiro Rojo
Juan Tejeda
Tom Keene
Teresinka Pereira
Jim Sagel
Robert Bonazzi
Ray González
Alfonso Rodríguez
Angela de Hoyos
Dave Oliphant
Robert Lima
Abel Markos Salas
Fernando Esteban Flores
Martha Mendoza
E.D. Santos
Maya Islas
Sheila Hatch
Kelly Anne Long
Paulina Sahagun
El Moshe

 

On the cover: Monotype, 8 3/8 "x 11", by San
Antonio artist Miguel Cortinas. Mr. Cortinas received
his MFA in the areas of printmaking and drawing
from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has
been with the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center for
more than six years, teaching painting, drawing and
printmaking. Miguel has exhibited his work in West
Germany and Mexico, as well as throughout the
United States.

 

SALMON
Para Joe Sommers, companero

When dusk surrounds you
Like a net,
Your body floats
Like driftwood,
And your full-blown eye
Tilts to stare at the moon
That refuses to pull,
When you begin to choke
On your own breath,
To shiver like ice,
You will know
You have begun
To chart the darkness
Of the water
Far beyond the cold.
Your armor,
Too heavy for the journey,
Lies here at attention.
And there,
Somewhere between the horizon
And the cloud bruising the sky,
You continue the struggle,
Cutting a hole in the night
That keeps the dawn from coming.

—Casimiro Rojo
~ Noviembre, 1978©

 

MESTIZA
Donna
dagli affetti intrisi di luna
densi di pene-passioni
offri con slancio
nel tuo silenzio greve
fra i violacei, pasticci di maíz
fradi rametti di sole
che indorano le panche
sotto l'ombra generosa
del flamboyant.
Donna
ancora immerse nell'acqua notturna
chioma corvina
confusa alla spuma dell'onda
ti osservo
e ascolto
uno sciabordio di remi
come sogni sull'acqua
intenti a spaccare da sopra
la buccia al tuo mare.
Atitlan, gennaio 1983

—Franca Bacchiega
(from the book by Franca Bacchiega, Grandine e grano,
Passigli Editori, Italia ©1991)
Reprinted by permission of the author.