Bøger af Levi Romero

These voices rise as a canto, singing the joys, sorrows, and praises of individual experiences to form a poetry collective that encompasses the poetic-cultural landscape that is New Mexico."--Levi Romero (New Mexico Inaugural Poet Laureate) and Michelle Otero (Emerita Albuquerque Poet Laureate) New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023 is an ode and homage to nuestra querencia, our beloved homeland. Two hundred original, previously unpublished poems resonate themes including community, culture, history, identity, landscape, and water. From a diverse group of poets, the poems are introspective and personal; reflective and astute; steady and celebratory. Including poignant, unique, even humorous perspectives on life in New Mexico influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, this collective of voices serves as a welcome remedio to all aspects of post-pandemic life, for ears aching for words of beauty, strength, and solace as we emerge from the cocoon of survivability.

Levi Romero recalls the tradiciones of life in northern New Mexico--a way of life seldom represented in American poetry.

These poems by a native son of the Embudo Valley in northern New Mexico express the heart of the poet at the margins of the city - Albuquerque, the place of all-night cafes, railroad tracks, and the pool tables of Jack's on Central. They also express the rhythms of the heart, whether in stately traditional narrative, in lyricism, or in the new language of the city street. Levi Romero has performed and published his poems extensively, winning awards in Blue Mesa Review and from the "Language of Life" series for KNME-TV in Albuquerque. This is his first volume of poetry.

Sagrado is neither a search for identity nor a quest for a homeland but an affirmation of an ever-evolving cultural landscape. Embedded at the heart of this remarkable book, in which prose, photographs, and poems complement each other, is a photopoetic journey across the Chicano Southwest.