A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005PR5T0E |
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| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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And when you pry open the lid, you can hear their laughter and gossip coming out. I read his work and I learn again how to love this life.--Luis Alberto UrreaThrough familiar details--leaking faucets and lowriders, "chicharrones" and chicken coops--Levi Romero remembers "familia, comunidad, " and "tradiciones" from his upbringing in northern New Mexico's Embudo Valley. Alongside his training and jobs in the building trades and the architectural profession, and now a teacher, his writing has maintained and nurtured his connection to the unique people and land he knows so well and that have seldom been represented in American poetry.. He can walk up a New Mexico arroyo and come back with a mysterious object full of quotidian magic. Like a rusted tobacco can the grand-fathers used to roll their smokes. "Levi Romero is a strange kind of wizard. That's what he does in poem after poem
. Levi Romero is currently a visiting Research Scholar in the School of Architecture and Planning at UNM, focusing on architectural and cultural landscapes studies
Marisa Martinez Mead said This homie can write. Mr. Romero, can write. His poems make me feel like its been a long time and then its a poem. He takes me to New Mexico and drops me off somewhere between an old lid for an old frying pan or somewhere on Gold Street right off of Central in Burque, a dried up river bed Embu
And when you pry open the lid, you can hear their laughter and gossip coming out. He can walk up a New Mexico arroyo and come back with a mysterious object full of quotidian magic. Levi Romero is a strange kind of wizard. I read his work and I learn again how to love this life. - Luis Alberto Urrea . That's what he does in poem after poem. Like a rusted tobacco can the grandfathers used to roll their smokes