This volume of poetry includes three new books: Deslaves, De repente la vida, and Cantos libres, as well as the intermezzo: Vis(itac)iones de Aztlan. All of them are interconnected. Poems written between 1980 and 2018 by Cuban poet Jesus J. Barquet, who resides in the US since 1980, when he arrived as part of the Mariel Boatlift.