Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence Chords After joining Timothy Leary’s intentional

After joining Timothy Leary’s intentional community in upstate New York

where meaning zooms into clarity then retreats

both condemned to containers allegorical and actual

000 Years in Sing Sing

compatible with the spirit of oral poetry

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence Chords After joining Timothy Leary’s intentionalHomero Aridjis Self Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written in and for the new century. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, migrant workers, Mexico's oppressed, female saints, other writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia), and naked angels in the metro. We find tributes to Goya and Heraclitus,