Through the Years

Written over the last ten years Ricardo Quinones debut book of poems Through the Years is a mixture of regular and irregular forms with subject matter ranging from Kansas to Southern California. The sometimes jaunty and sometimes meditative poems seek to use common words in an uncommon way mixing humor with seriousness.But many poems are philosophical or deeply psychological such as Why Do Grown Men Weep? and The American Writer while others border on the religious: Desert Bloom and Oil and Water. The volume contains new sections called Wallet Poems--poems dealing with day-to-day subjects that are meant to be carried with you.Mr. Quinones poems skillfully vary in their reflectiveness ultimately making the collection practically impossible to summarize.