One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

Biblical names are hot again.

If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.