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    <![CDATA[A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;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.&quot;--Luis Alberto Urrea<p>Through familiar details--leaking faucets and lowriders, <em>chicharrones</em> and chicken coops--Levi Romero remembers <em>familia, comunidad,</em> and <em>tradiciones</em> 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.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[In the Gathering of Silence]]>
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    <![CDATA[This collection of poems by a native son of the Embudo Valley in northern New Mexico affirms that &quot;we in our lives move forward simply / accepting and giving / as the earth gives / and rejecting and taking / as the earth takes / because we know nothing else.&quot; Elemental and natural, passionate and sensitive, they express the heart of a norteño at the margins of the city--especially Albuquerque, the city of all-night cafes, railroad tracks, and the pool tables of Jack's on Central. Romero also expresses the rhythms of the heart, sometimes in stately, traditional narrative; sometimes in lyrical and cadenced repetition, like jazz with a missed beat; sometimes in the calo dialect of the street.<br/><br/>This collection of poems by a native son of northern New Mexico expresses the heart of a norteño at the margins of the city.]]>
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