Published:
1st edition, 100 copies: June 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7782741-3-8
Price: $20CDN/US including shipping
41 pages
Standard paper, cardstock cover
Status: In Print

Ocaña's poems are musical, colourful, sensorial, alive with chatter, travel, flirtation, and "dreaming in broad daylight." World and personal history intertwine in a consciousness attuned to the impermanence of all things, intellectual and joyful all at once. 
— Jay Ritchie, author of Listening in Many Publics

Red Bolero is a brilliant, luminous collection of poems that explores memory, love, migration, sensuality, and self discovery through the textures of daily life. Vivid imagery and musical phrasing transform the ordinary into moments of startling beauty—whether it's a red dress in the breeze or grey hair glinting in the light. From Billie Holiday's haunting voice to the riffs of Sam Rivers, music flows through these pages, giving shape to longing, improvisation, and memory. 
— Gloria Macher, international award-winning novelist and poet