Sojourner, So to Speak
Somoza, Joseph / Somoza, Joe
A collection of disarming poems by an Austrian American that speaks like map ponderings along the route of blue highways. His slightly estranged journey follows neighborhood streets to downtown hotels and interstates toward a zen that is not Zen, but found by singing in a lawnchair in a backyard in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Scenes and events of daily life are recorded from a still center amid the flux of our "vida loca." With a language precise ...