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Poetry of Remembrance - (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) by Levi Romero (Paperback)
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Highlights
- "Levi Romero is a strange kind of wizard.
- Author(s): Levi Romero
- 180 Pages
- Poetry, American
- Series Name: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry
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About the Book
Levi Romero recalls the tradiciones of life in northern New Mexico--a way of life seldom represented in American poetry.Book Synopsis
"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 Urrea
Through 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.
2009 Southwest Book of the Year, Tucson-Pima County Public Library