Juan Esteban Londoño's The Land of Broken Words is a powerful, marvelous, original book. His poems create two worlds: one frau-ght with darkness, and the other overflowing with light. Each page surfaces with humility and, simultaneously, with violence, in the midst of a snow-covered field. This is essential to his manner of expressing silence, fleetingness, contemplation, and philosophical undertones. He speaks of internal and external migrations...