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From the title down every single word used, the poetry book, This Pulse of Life, These Words I Found by Cuban Miguel Olivé, is a reflection of a poet who has matured and diversified his poetic proposal. The themes he writes about cover life in its manifold manifestations: love, loss, nature, poetry, family, religion. Depth and feeling, keen observation and passion envelop his wording. I have shivered at his sensuous poems, I have clearly seen the events, phenomena and sights he has photographed in poems for viewers to revel in and never forget – because they will never forget.

MSc Marlene Mora Associate Professor Foreign Languages Department University of Holguín, Cuba

I had already read Forge of Words, Miguel Olivé’s previous solo poetry book published by Hidden Brook Press in 2019. Now he offers this new compilation of eighty-seven poems in his This Pulse of Life, These Words I Found, published by Wet Ink Books. Wonderful poems, warm and winning, solid and unforgettable. He is a Cuban poet who writes directly in English then translates into Spanish! I respect that, as I respect his dexterity in the language and his insightful translation of life into poetry. Readers will be moved by themes and poetic composition; they will open their wise eyes – and vulnerable hearts – to a proposal that covers universal themes, like love, penned with his unique style. Read This Pulse of Life, These Words I Found by Cuban Miguel Olivé. You won’t regret it.

PhD Jorge Ronda Full Professor Foreign Languages Department University of Pedagogical Sciences, Havana, Cuba

This Pulse of Life, These Words I Found, a poetry book by a Cuban professor, Miguel Olivé, enters sweetly through our eyes and sets forever in our minds. The poet’s proposal is agile, varied, enrapturing and lyrical. Both short and long pieces are treated with right doses of delicacy and fire, mirroring the poet’s understanding of what surrounds him. As he did in his first book (Forge of Words, Hidden Brook Press, 2019), Olivé captures reality and feelings, puts them in a poetry furnace and they emerge to impress us and show us our own lives reflected in many of them.

Reading the poetry book This Pulse of Life, These Words I Found by Cuban Miguel Olivé made me look back into my life and the way I have faced it. But the look was one of tenderness and appreciation as the poet revealed things I had not noticed and shed a new light upon my own experiences. The book’s poetic scope and intent are fulfilled to my pleasure and the pleasure of those who want their hearts to be touched and their bodies to tremble in anticipation and sense of participation in a poet’s involvement and ability to reach us. I am grateful I was chosen by Olivé to read his book.

After reading This Pulse of Life, These Words I Found, by Cuban Miguel Olivé, your life will change, as will how you deal with every feeling crossing your heart. The poet has a way with words: they reach out and touch you then they settle and give you warmth. Olivé has found the right words to reveal for us how life pulsates.