A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works
, by Romero, LeviNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780826345103 | 0826345107
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/31/2009
"Levi Romero is a strange kind of wizard. 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. And when you pry open the lid, you can hear their laughter and gossip coming out. That's what he does in poem after poem. I read his work and I learn again how to love this life."--Luis Alberto UrreaThrough familiar details--leaking faucets and lowriders, chicharronesand chicken coops--Levi Romero remembers familia, comunidad,and tradicionesfrom 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.