“And the reader cannot predict these surprising poems, that coax softly, and when less expected, break your heart.” ...

“With its memories of memories and wistful recalls, Three Letters is not the work of a fledgling poet. It comes from someone who has lived, remembered and regretted. ...

“It is a kind of passionate innocence in which Mariano Zaro writes. Each of these poems is an incandescent deep song of the senses.” ...

“In The House of Mae Rim, Mariano Zaro’s poems are like gentle apertures–quiet yet vivid as secrets whispered into the ear by a voice close by, then gone. ..

ANGLE OF REFLECTION features the work of ten award–winning Los Angeles poets with a remarkable 20–year history of working together. This luminous collection...