Joseph L Delgado

Susan and Her Elders

Tropical Snow

A Month of April Firsts

By Joseph Delgado Ditch Water (1st Frist Edition) [Paperback]

A Month of April Firsts

Humor, biting sarcasm, painful reminiscing and a dash of unsolicited advice blend together in A Month of April Firsts, where the author gives us a thirty-day dose of his relationships with other men, from childhood to old age. Watch the narrator hold hands across America, stumble, crash, stand tall ...

Tropical Snow

During the final seconds of his life Jorge Blancos past appears as a spiraled succession of images on a dynamic canvas. Deluded by the conviction of a religious vocation and motivated by the desire to escape his troubled home life, Jorge migrates from Puerto Rico to Minnesota, where he joins a Bened...

Ditch Water

These poems come from the steam of tortillas on the comal, from the banks of arroyos, from the sweat simmering from the skin. These are not healing songs, these are not prayers, these are photos kept hidden, wrapped in musty paños, stuffed to the back of the drawer, some musty box, some vato’s back ...