Travels with Fernando

“With a poet’s gimlet eye—Poet Nina Rubinstein Alonso vividly brings us into her travels in Spain and Portugal with her husband. The poetry abounds with sensory detail --with attention to food, the smell of rotting mushrooms, the fragrant blush of flowers... The book is a literal cornucopia of images, brought and served on the reader’s plate. Whether this wandering couple is in Madrid Lisbon, etc.. Nina Rubinstein Alonso embraces the streets, the hustlers, a pile of paintings at the Prado, the bowled legs of a peasant woman—all with equal aplomb.” — Doug Holder (Co-President New England Poetry Club)