Book Groups

I belong to different writing groups and I’m interested in visiting writing or reading groups at any time. Since I write poetry and fiction you can find below a list of questions that would help in the discussion of your group. These questions are intended to guide to a discussion for groups reading Exiliana. I'm hopeful that poetry will take a better place in the podium as it did in the past.

Exiliana discussion questions:

• Some of the poems present or are presented with two voices. Is this dichotomy effective to what the book represent?
• Is the theme of exile the most important in the book?
• War and love are underlying themes in this first book? How and why the author explore these themes?

Suggested readings

Logic Lost Genius by Craig Smorynski and Edward Griffor

The Catfish by Franz Wright

Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky

The Witness of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz

Inventario by Mario Benedetti

Angel of History by Carolyn Forche

Possibility of Being by Rainer Maria Rilke

The work of Oscar Wilde by Parragon Publishing

Night and Day by Virginia Wolf

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi

Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee

The land of Ulro by Czeslaw Milosz

The Essential Plato by Benjamin Jowelt

Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

Simple Verses by Jose Marti

Collected poems by Sylvia Plath

Story by Robert Mc Kee

Selected poems Ted Hughes

Juliette by Marquis de Sade

Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

My Century by Gunther Grass

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

Love by Tony Morrison

Later the Same Day by Grace Paley

Foucaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski

All the work by Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral and Juan Goytisolo.