South Texas Experience: Love Letters
A Poetry book. This is the best book of poetry I've read in years. My daughter and I read and reread it...
South Texas Experience: Love Letters is a collection of words and photos on loving South Texas and Texas, despite the bones and pain that are born on Texas soil. Of looking for seasons and bordered tongues and dreaming of bones and gray flowers.http://www.hermanaresistpress.com/pro...Poems inside include: DecomposedHistory Books in Texasrio bravoHome-you learn to loveit's so hard to love you texasin which hopeful souls cross throughI could fall in love with youfor you againtexas my texasour bodies in the dirtweslaco campusforecastfound inside a cratewe were candlesredemptionwith photos of several parks and resacas in the Rio Grande Valley.
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- Pages: 40 pages
- ISBN: 9781364736910 / 1364736918
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Such a pretty collection. The photos! And lines like this, "Historian as curandera. Poet as curandera." This is the best book of poetry I've read in years. My daughter and I read and reread it together and were awestruck by the way Martinez brings horrific truths and beautiful images and words together in her work. "It's so hard to love you Texas," states a poem by Noemi Martinez, "with your death and denial/when you choke the stars/before they reach their destination." But not all is darkness and despair. Martinez mixes poems that detail love, loss, secret joy, secret pain. dust, flowers, and sunsets with beautiful photographs of the landscape...
