ECLIPSE: A POEM
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By Luz Emma Cañas Madrigal
Published by Madrigal Publishing, 2023
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One Page Book
By Luz Emma Cañas Madrigal
Published by Madrigal Publishing, 2023
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MARTIAL LOVE: A MEMOIR
By Luz Emma Cañas Madrigal
Published by Madrigal Publishing, 2022
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By Luz Emma Cañas Madrigal
Published by Madrigal Publishing, 2022
Limited Edition
Soft Back with Vellum Dust Jacket
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Currently valued at $108
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An all-women’s Ayahuasca ceremony serves as the setting for Luz’s story. As A Xamã (a medicine woman) administers the psychoactive plant syrup, she asks Luz what brought her to this healing circle. The search for a simple answer sends the sputtering warrior on a psychic journey recollecting fragments of her past: A near-death experience as a toddler, navigating through a violent home as a child, and settling into domestic violence as a young mother. Now in the middle of her years, multiple traumas begin sprawling before her after the murder of O Marido, her estranged husband - a master of Capoeira (the martial dance that mimics the movement of fighting zebras). He had no family, leaving Luz as the only one who can identify the body; which prompts her return to Brazil from the United States and places her directly in front of the unraveling secrets of her dead husband. Although she lobbies for her husband to receive Islamic burial rites, the day of his funeral Luz discovers he was buried in a public grave. If O Marido’s remains are not soon transferred to a permanent plot, they will be cremated and scattered across a mass grave with countless others. From her understanding of Afro-Brazilian ancestor worship, an improper burial could lead to O Marido’s spiritual unrest. If his bones wound up in the wrong hands, the volatile energy of his material life could be used against her in his spiritual life. To ensure peace for her, and her children, Luz decides to exhume the remains - knowing that this action of love and survival will signal a declaration of war to the powerful characters plotting to condemn her husband’s soul, and skill, to spiritual servitude. She must use her own teachings to take up arms and intercede between the living and the dead, convince her evermore suicidal children that life is a miracle worth staying alive for, and urge her husband to continue his ascension into the higher realms of consciousness until he fully crosses over. Luz’s story is about the belief in a compassionate God, a life after death, and the thin, silver lining between love and dark clouds. Hers is a mythological tale of a hero’s journey through the shadow along the line of spirit and matter.
FROM HIM TO HIM
by Luz Emma Cañas Madrigal
Published by Maximalist Press, 2021
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by Luz Emma Cañas Madrigal
Published by Maximalist Press, 2021
Limited Edition Embossed Soft Cover Book
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“From him to Him” is a three part poetry collection of three previously self-published poetry books. “From him to Him” is the culmination of Luz’s seventeen-year walk on the Sufi path and her pursuit of a connection to the Divine. Although her poetry dwells intimately on the human connection to Divinity, she emphasizes the perennial imperfections of humanity, and how these flaws are an integral aspect of the return to Him. Her words are an honest transmission of her lived experience, which has transcended the typical expectations of a spiritual quest, and instead embraces a contradictory, broken, and lost human nature. At a time when much of the world feels upended, “From Him to Him” consoles the reader with the sense that one is not alone in one's walking. Lovers seek. Hearts break. And we all eventually return home.
BLUE EYED DOG
by Christopher Sean Taylor
Published by Madrigal Publishing, 2021
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by Christopher Sean Taylor
Published by Madrigal Publishing, 2021
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It's been a year since Lastings Simmons reluctantly returned to his childhood home of Villa Verde, California. Soon after his arrival, he gets broadsided with a letter of foreclosure on the house he recently inherited. To make matters worse for the young jazz prodigy, he finds himself accosted by a barrage of questions he is unable to answer in a rather violent interrogation by two surly detectives. It appears that he and the brother of his provocative tenant, January, are prime suspects in a kidnapping. Lastings is hell bent on clearing their names and, simultaneously, becoming January's salvation. Only to discover, January has demons of her own. Traipsing around them leads him down a path he is ill prepared to take.
Blue Eyed Dog is a captivating sophomore novel by Los Angeles native, Christopher Taylor. A nod to fiction noir novelists, such as Raymond Chandler, James Elroy and Walter Mosley, Christopher weaves Southern California history into a murder mystery with jazz as its sultry background.
Blue Eyed Dog is a captivating sophomore novel by Los Angeles native, Christopher Taylor. A nod to fiction noir novelists, such as Raymond Chandler, James Elroy and Walter Mosley, Christopher weaves Southern California history into a murder mystery with jazz as its sultry background.