First Book of Poems to Be Published with Palimpsesto Editorial

Very proud to announce Editorial Palimpsesto 2.0 will publish my book of poems, We Hailed at the Twilight in 2015!! It will be an English-Spanish bilingual edition, translated into Spanish by Fernando Toda Iglesias.

We Hailed at the Twilight will be available in print and digital version and the digital edition available through online booksellers! 

Check the link to their website announcement: 
http://editorial.palimpsesto2punto0.com/es/blog/michael-montesano-se-incorpora-a-nuestra-lista-de-autores-para-el-curso-2015-n4

There you can read there a recent poem published in their Cuaderno 13, "Ode to Capitalism" 
Here's a short sample of We Hailed at the Twilight:


I’m watching day break over the highway
Thinking last night’s dream on a trip to Wildwood

Why is the moon following us?
Will it be there at the shore?

With its glow reflecting in her eye
Yes, baba, it will be there, always it will be there

The stereo says it’s a marvelous night
And I think there’s something in it

I fall asleep to the current, wake
To blueblack sky easing its grip

I watch the road come on, go
Rushing by, streaming back to the infinite past

Acocoxóchitl

Who doesn't see

these things flicker through their dreams?

A campfire smoldering in the wooded night

the cook-pot boiling over fomenting the flames

This is Basque country, 1936

thirty years later in Ñancahuazú

Who doesn't see these things?

An Iraqi boy

his dark face luminous

walks past the barrel of an M16

The bleary-eyed gunman careens at his post

he's a good-old boy who's forgotten where he is

He's picturing the girl he never asked to dance

when his eyes roll back and his trigger finger slips

The gun flash bursts into riotous dahlias

red dahlias flourishing through the boy's skull

Who doesn't see?

Who doesn't see us marching

through the fields, all of us

marching through fields of red dahlias?