"'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut."

-- Mark Doty

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“When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three â€˜E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.”

Source : Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
“May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love.”
“Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.”
“Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.”
“I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.”
“Life is an occasion...rise to it.”
“The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. ThatÂ’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, theyÂ’re willinÂ’ to lose everything. If they win, theyÂ’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.”

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