Two voices / Gloria G. Goloy, Doris Trinidad.

Woman and man, rib and floating rib, and "the urgent color of their need" generate the lyric tension in the poems of Gloria Garchitoreta-Goloy where gnomic nuggets, sutras if you like, are veiled and at the same time revealed in metaphors woven into a silken tapestry of words. Even where leitmotif seems to depart from "a code that is as ancient as the sun," at least on the conscious level of creation, there are undertones that hint at the basic polarities. But it must be stressed that the poet views this elemental drama from a point of view that is both Catholic and catholic. It is this spiritual perspective that orders the peopled landscape of Mrs. Goloy's poems, a landscape alive with lovers fermenting under "the skies of livid steel."---The late poet Federico Licsi Espino Jr.