Travels with Fernando

With a poet's gimlet eye-Poet Nina Rubinstein Alonso vividly brings us into her travels in Spain and Portugal with her husband. The poetry abounds with sensory detail --with attention to food the smell of rotting mushrooms the fragrant blush of flowers... The book is a literal cornucopia of images brought and served on the reader's plate. Whether this wandering couple is in Madrid Lisbon etc.. Nina Rubinstein Alonso embraces the streets the hustlers a pile of paintings at the Prado the bowled legs of a peasant woman-all with equal aplomb.- Doug Holder (Co-President New England Poetry Club)