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Next Extinct Mammal
Ruben Quesada's debut poetry collection.
Paperback, 59 pages
Published
2011
by Greenhouse Review Press
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Reading Next Extinct Mammal (Greenhouse Review Press), the debut collection from Ruben Quesada, is like sifting through a box of small, rare gems. The poems, which range from tight sonnets to plainspoken prose poems to free verse, blend Western traditions and delicate prosody with refreshingly bold subject matter.
The opening poem, “Store,” sets the tone. A loosely rhymed sonnet about passing East LA street gangs on the way to an Asian supermarket, it boasts lines like “As if nobody dared pass th...more
The opening poem, “Store,” sets the tone. A loosely rhymed sonnet about passing East LA street gangs on the way to an Asian supermarket, it boasts lines like “As if nobody dared pass th...more
Ruben Quesada’s début collection of poetry, Next Extinct Mammal, is a rare treat of imagery and frankness. At a time when plain, unadorned, weird and disjointed poetry is celebrated and sought, and after so much effort has been put, for so many years, into the rejection of style – into undoing Symbolism, undoing Romanticism, undoing Confessionalism, undoing Imagism – and into reform and political awareness and academic snobbery, reading the work of a poet who is not afraid of himself or of the l...more
Ruben Quesada's debut collection embraces nostalgia and makes you feel "until there is nothing left but your heartbeat in your ears." Quesada's poetry is poetry of place and family, of struggle and acceptance of identity and loss, of illumination and shadows.
Next Extinct Mammal is the "alpenglow" before sunrise, a great revelation of the poetry that is to come from Quesada.
"Esta Noche" and "Tamale Serenade" are my favorites.
Next Extinct Mammal is the "alpenglow" before sunrise, a great revelation of the poetry that is to come from Quesada.
"Esta Noche" and "Tamale Serenade" are my favorites.
It's a quick read, but one you'll come back to again and again. A journey through neighborhoods, people, and places with haunting images of memory.
Mar 02, 2013
Candace
marked it as to-read
Dec 29, 2011
Ching-In
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Dec 23, 2011
Oliver Bendorf
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