"A poet’s gift is immersion—the ability to captivate readers with images, sensations and thoughts that create a living place on the printed page. Suddenly, the poet’s world becomes the reader’s world. Arturo Magaña Amaya’s poetry collection, Nostalgias of November, is a remarkable display of this stylized writing. His work opens spaces and places in the human psyche that without his words would have remained untouched. Longings and hidden truths deep in the human heart are stirred to life and follow a path from darkness to light and beyond to new paths, some rocky and treacherous with twists and turns, others open invitations to climb higher."