Silence and Other Poems - Paperback

Romero, David A.: - David A. Romero is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and publisher from Diamond Bar, CA. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of El Martillo Press. Romero is the author of the novel The Enemy Sleeps (El Martillo Press, 2026) and the books of poetry My Name Is Romero (FlowerSong Press, 2020) and Diamond Bars 2 (Moon Tide Press, 2024). Romero has received honorariums from nearly a hundred colleges and universities in thirty-four different states in the USA and has also performed live in Mexico, Italy, and France. His poem, "You Were Born a Tree" was sent to the Moon by NASA in 2025 as part of the Lunar Codex. Romero's work has been published in literary magazines and anthologies in the United States, Mexico, England, Scotland, Cuba, Canada, and Hungary. Romero has opened for Latin Grammy winning bands Ozomatli and La Santa Cecilia. Romero's work has been published in anthologies alongside poets laureate Joy Harjo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Luis J. Rodriguez, Jack Hirschman, and Tongo Eisen-Martin. Romero has won the Uptown Slam at the historic Green Mill in Chicago; the birthplace of slam poetry. Romero's poetry deals with family, identity, social justice issues, and Latine culture.Bari, Károly: - Károly Bari, a Hungarian poet, essayist, folklorist, graphic artist and translator of several Romani languages, was born in 1952 in Bükkaranyos, a small Hungarian mountain village, in a Romani family as the fifth of seven children. After primary school, he attended grammar school in Miskolc, and after graduating, he studied at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest and at the Faculty of Arts of the Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen. He was still a high school student when his first poetry book garnered wide acclaim in his homeland and was published in two successive editions. He has published several volumes since then. In the mid-1970s he was imprisoned in one of the most notorious prisons in Hungary for his political poems. After his release, he was pushed to the periphery of society for several years. He wrote and edited twenty-six books of poetry, tales, folklore and prose. He published eighteen CDs of Romani folklore and created a Romani dictionary. His work has been critically acclaimed by many reviewers, literary and academic scholars. He received the Kossuth Prize, Hungary's highest official state award, and was elected to the Digital Literary Academy of Hungary.Gyukics, Gábor G.: - gábor g. gyukics, (b. 1958) Hungarian-American poet (jazz-poet), translator, author of eleven books of poetry in five languages; six in Hungarian, three in English, one in Arabic, one in Bulgarian, one in Czech, one book of original prose and nineteen books of translations including A Transparent Lion: Selected Poems by Attila József published by Green Integer in 2006, an anthology of North American Indigenous poets in Hungarian titled Medvefelhő a város felett published in 2015 and a contemporary Hungarian poetry anthology in English titled They'll Be Good for Seed published by White Pine Press in 2021 and an anthology of American poetry and prose in Hungarian titled Viselnéd a szemem published by L'Harmattan and Károli Publishing groups in 2021. He was honored with the Hungarian Beat Poet Laureate Lifetime award in September 2020 by the National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. based in Connecticut, USA. He recently co-translated and was the chief editor of the collected works of Allen Ginsberg in Hungarian titled Nélkülözhetetlen Allen Ginsberg which was published in Budapest by Europa Publishing in October 2022. His latest American collection, detoxification of the body was published by El Martillo Press in 2024.