Books in Print

by Xavier F.Aguilar

All books are 5½ x 8½ inches. Chapbooks are paperbound and stapled.

First Snow: Collected Writings — Poetry and Prose (2010)
First Snow can be viewed as an extension of Mr. Aguilar's previous work, Where Grandma Lived, as it is a context of poems and prose.  Where memories and truisms exist, discover the literary scheme of ideas and imagination.

Where Grandma Lived: Collected Writings — Prose and Poetry (2008); Expanded Second Edition (2009)
This varied expression captures the time and place where the author lives. In prose and poetry he exemplifies realism and imagination. The cover photo depicts the Monongahela Valley from the ever present railway to the natural boundaries of river and hillsides. 86 pages, perfectbound. For sample prose and book cover, click here.

Between Places (2007)
This literary collection sparks tales of lonliness, horror, murder and love. An introduction to the short prose is captured in the author's poem, Chasing the Salamander, which is inclusive. Aguilar's transition from poetics to narrative is entertaining. For sample prose and book cover, click here.

Gathering Poets (2006)
This expression serves readers in allotting their varied mentalities to meet and minds contemplate, for thoughts to move and worlds change, to let the human cause precede the literary effect. Eighteen poets featured. For sample poem and book cover, click here.

Poetic Moods (1977, 2004)
This collection was written in the 1970s with the poem, “I Am,” winning national exposure as published in Science Of Mind. Reprinted in 2004. For sample poem and book cover, click here.

Grotto of Balancanche
This book of verse is directly related to love; that emotion which causes all to be or not to. Find that place of forever passing which is always here.

Poems
A collection of insight as well as memories of past experiences. Works appearing in this book have been previously published by Poet’s Fantasy and Jubilation.

Mexican Light (2005)
Previously published in Waste Machine and Science Of Mind, poetry contained in this book embraces foregoing expression as well as todays. A must for all Aguilar readers.