""Sexy, involved, intense, hilarious, hip, weird, intelligent, witchy wild in a way one thinks of female owls, maybe with embers of fire under their wings, such wide eyesight: This Is A Damn Good Book!" -ron androla Dulce Menendez writes like no one is watching, She's a wanderer with a purpose, moving language from darkness to bliss, dazzling like a flamenco dancer. She writes as if there's nothing to lose -- fusing images that inflamed her past -- with a beat of music behind each line. How many places can the mind go at once? We are surprised by her perception, and replenished by her sensuality. Menendez mines a vector of power so that all that's submerged explodes on the line. We travel her poems with the same ceaseless spirit she has. Courage is an expressed rebellion.... When implicated by exactly the right words, it is unforgettable. It becomes poetry. -Grace Cavalieri Producer/Host "The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress." When I said Goodbye is a wonderful, relevant book of poetry. Menendez's poems are about thought and the ways in which thoughts are produced. At first glance we are presented with titles that reflects the world we are very much at home in. The mundane that is expressed in The Turtles' Tank Needs To Be Cleaned, There is no turning back; The Night Before the Divorce, Jose And Me On The Bus. These poems move through a golden-spiraled jogging highway of action that develops thought both inwards and outwards of the extramundane! It's a journey that is at once comfortable in its closeness, a voice not unlike your own while the experience resounds in its present moments. "If there is regret, there is no turning back." I urge you to read this book! -Geoffrey Gatza Poet & Publisher"