These poems explore the author’s boyhood in a Spanish village, his coming of age and his arrival to California in his 20's. A series of characters marginalized by society interact with the speaker and help him understand his uniqueness and...

El poema Padre Tierra es una conversación con la figura del padre. Una conversación que retrata al padre y a la vez, revela la identidad del hijo: sus miedos, sus descubrimientos y su paso de la infancia a la edad adulta.

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...

“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. ...

“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. ..

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

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