the sahara of i

Luis Francia is a poet in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and José Garcia Villa, and shares with them a compulsion to write serious poems--poems deeply concerned with the metaphysical--that are nonetheless filled with incandescent wordplay, humor, and even, at times, joy. In The Sahara of I Luis H. Francia once again shares his marvelous gift for probing insight, humor, alliterative wordplay, and serious observations of humanity in all its complexity. Francia contemplates our living and our dead, not to mention our hidden connection amid apparent isolation. Few writers wield such irony and romance simultaneously. It is a sparkling pathos, a playful gravity.