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by Levi Romero (Author), V. B. Price (Foreword by), Rudolfo Anaya (Preface by)
"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
Author Biography
Levi Romero is an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works and Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland (both from UNM Press).
V.B.PriceisanotedNewMexicanpoetandjournalist--andmore.HeisamemberofthefacultyoftheUniversityofNewMexico'sHonorsCollege, formereditoroftheMaryBurrittChristensenPoetrySeriesattheUniversityofNewMexicoPress, andanadjunctassociateprofessorattheUNMSchoolofArchitectureandPlanning.HeisacofounderoftheonlinepublicationNewMexicoMercuryandtheauthorofseveralbooks, includingTheOrphanedLand: NewMexico'sEnvironmentSincetheManhattanProject. Rudolfo Anaya is the acclaimed author of Bless Me, Ultima and many other books.
