Love & War w/Myself
It was dope to be introduced to Victor Villaseñor's work after he had breakfast at my place of employment last week. Provided below are excerpts & parts of reviews & I provided links, if you're interested in reading them in its entirety. Publisher's Weekly in 2004, & 2008. The San Diego Union-Tribune & The Washington Post..
"Despite all the humiliation, frustration & hardship Villaseñor encounters throughout his youth, he maintains an astonishingly positive & compassionate attitude. His retelling of.... sometimes chilling childhood experience is at once painful & gratifying. He imaginatively & poetically remembers his tumultuous childhood w/the simplicity of a child & the introspection of a sage."
*Sidenote: I miss being saccharine. I "always seem to keep things dark enough, "playing blue.""
"Youthful Exuberance, Unrestrained" <--- I long for this.
"Could I really have been so passionate & naive? Where is the kid who felt such raw emotion?"
Excerpt from Thirteen Senses..
"Was it love?" (the book's first words)
".... a woman's heart is her strength! Not her weakness...."
"Work, mi hijita, is a woman's power. Her relaxation & sanity. Her way of coming to terms w/life's twists & turns, & not lose her way."
"So always know, mi hijita, that you are una lluvia de oro, a rain of gold, sent by God to do your work for the survival of all humankind. We are the power.... the center.... & in this knowledge, then our hearts are INDESTRUCTIBLE!"
"Despite all the humiliation, frustration & hardship Villaseñor encounters throughout his youth, he maintains an astonishingly positive & compassionate attitude. His retelling of.... sometimes chilling childhood experience is at once painful & gratifying. He imaginatively & poetically remembers his tumultuous childhood w/the simplicity of a child & the introspection of a sage."
*Sidenote: I miss being saccharine. I "always seem to keep things dark enough, "playing blue.""
"Youthful Exuberance, Unrestrained" <--- I long for this.
"Could I really have been so passionate & naive? Where is the kid who felt such raw emotion?"
