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Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works
Contributor(s): Romero, Levi (Author), Price, V. B. (Foreword by), Anaya, Rudolfo (Preface by)

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ISBN: 0826345107     ISBN-13: 9780826345103
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2009
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Annotation: Levi Romero recalls the tradiciones of life in northern New Mexico--a way of life seldom represented in American poetry.

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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.54
Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" L (0.60 lbs) 180 pages
Features: Table of Contents
 
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"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.

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Contributor Bio(s): Romero, Levi: - Levi Romero is currently a visiting Research Scholar in the School of Architecture and Planning at UNM, focusing on architectural and cultural landscapes studies.
 
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