Memory's Village is a collection of poems that celebrates and contemplates the author's move into a rural traditional village in the mountains of northern New Mexico after spending most of his life in large U.S. cities. As with any of us in the early days of a major relocation, his first impressions are celebratory, accepting, admiring. But after a brief visit of some weeks, he and his wife move in as permanent residents and the more discriminating and critical mind takes over. Filled with humor, praise, at times irritation, the reader gets an inside view of the author's attitudes and...
Memory's Village is a collection of poems that celebrates and contemplates the author's move into a rural traditional village in the mountains of nort...
Flowering Thistles is a collection of selected writings by four generations of a literary Costa Rican family, including an account of the first Cardona to arrive from Europe. All but the compiler's and his nephew's writing first appeared in Spanish; the rest he has translated into English, Cardona-Hine himself has written and been published in both languages, but here he presents fourteen poems in English on the death of his mother. Appearing in order, are the writings of his grandfather, his father, uncle, his father's cousin, his half-brother and his nephew. Short biographies of each writer...
Flowering Thistles is a collection of selected writings by four generations of a literary Costa Rican family, including an account of the first Cardon...