"I relive the life we had together, /when we imagined the possible," on the one hand. On the other: "the lullaby of that machine opened its pores" and "the open backbone of memory." Which is to say: throughout this poemario, Lourdes Vazquez, at the height of her powers, plays the whole spectrum of her instrument-from an unflinching, evocative discursiveness, to an idiosyncratic poetics of metaphor, but always with her signature flourish. Poem after poem, "I disappear ed] into a thousand fragments" and relished every step.-- Francisco Aragon La voz poetica de Lourdes Vazquez es la de una...