“El Paraíso Perdido” is a critical song that explores how paradise is eroded by corruption and exploitation. Through imagery of consumerism, oppression, and manipulation –"Lead, bread, and circuses / The people pay"– La Vida Bohème makes an urgent…

The title of this book comes from a verse that, perhaps, can serve as a synthesis of what I’ve tried to do in poetry—something that has been present in the collections I’ve published for a little over thirty years. Life has now gifted me sixty years,…