"Trees Dream of Water is a collection of new and selected poems by the New Mexico poet, Leo Romero. Spanning decades from the 1970s to the present, it introduces readers to Romero's work and life as an important, but undersung, Chicano poet. This collection includes revised selections from Romero's previously published books-During the Growing Season (1978); Agua Negra (1981); Celso (1985); Going Away Home Indian (1990); and San Fernandez Beat (1992)-and also presents a new, unpublished collection, Beyond Nageezi. Organized chronologically, the poems in Trees Dream of Water document Romero's…mehr
"Trees Dream of Water is a collection of new and selected poems by the New Mexico poet, Leo Romero. Spanning decades from the 1970s to the present, it introduces readers to Romero's work and life as an important, but undersung, Chicano poet. This collection includes revised selections from Romero's previously published books-During the Growing Season (1978); Agua Negra (1981); Celso (1985); Going Away Home Indian (1990); and San Fernandez Beat (1992)-and also presents a new, unpublished collection, Beyond Nageezi. Organized chronologically, the poems in Trees Dream of Water document Romero's journey from youth to older age as a person and a poet, and his deep connection to New Mexico and its culture. They draw on a deep well of memory, myth, and observation of the natural world to explore themes of family, community belonging and conflict, life as an artist, and the cycles of life and death. Many of the poems are conversational in tone, and include stories, snippets of dialogue, questions, and understated humor, as well as richly evocative reflections on nature. The poems also feature recurring characters and alter egos, such as Celso, a trickster and storyteller"--Provided by publisher.
Born in 1950 in ChacÓn, New Mexico, Leo Romero is considered a foundational figure of Latino letters. Since 1988, Romero has been a bookseller in Santa Fe, New Mexico, having had five different bookstores in five different locations. His current bookstore is Books of Interest. Romero has published six books of poetry and one book of short fiction, and he has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, was a Pushcart Prize winner, and a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation resident.
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Foreword by Joy Harjo Introduction by Rigoberto GonzÁlez DURING THE GROWING SEASON (1978) I Hear the Mare Neigh If There Was Moonlight No Stars No Stars You Listen to the Chickens Not of the Soil Red Dress Way of the Falling Rain ChacÓn and Rain Comanchito Lullaby What Trees Dream About Past Placitas There’s the House We Slept on the Porch The Road to Waldo As Celso Tells It Mentiras Yaqui Indian Blood Her Name Is Morning Letter to Erlinda Hitchhiking Green Something or Other in Kansas If We Got Married AGUA NEGRA (1981) In the RincÓn Benediction Tree The Goat’s Cry Estafiate Too Many Years Agua Negra A Shadow Which Could Be Anything The Silent Bell The Trees on the Hillside Augustina Weaving the Rain A Lying Moon and a Lonely Bird This Dark Winter Leaving Vegas There Is the Wind My Mother Listens One Day Before Christmas Before We Had an Icebox Artificial Flowers CELSO (1980) (1985) Celso Was Born Celso’s Father The Moon and Angels Ash Wednesday Holy Water The Miracle A Thousand Angels Angel Hair Estrellita’s Lips Una CanciÓn de Flores Triste, Triste Son The Dead Are Dancing A Dying Flower for His Heart This Bitterness The Sorrowful Madonna Because the Moon Is a Woman Job Visits Celso Celso’s Dream Celso Talking to the Moon One Night as Celso Santiago, Since I Turned Sixty There Was a Time GOING HOME AWAY INDIAN (1990) Going Home Away He Was Dancing the Yellow Dance He Didn’t Like Me It Was in 1856 In His Dreams Skeleton Indian Marilyn Monroe Indian Skeleton Indian, He’s the Talk I Ever See You Yellow Blouse Woman Skeleton Indian Thinks Skeleton Indian Was a Navajo Here Comes Skeleton There’s Nothing Worse Head Blown Off That’s John Colley He Was Approached Who Was He Welcome, Says Skeleton Raymundo Raymundo, Say You Love Me Note from the Author SAN FERNANDEZ BEAT (1992) Ginsberg’s on the Phone Again Next Time I Come to Visit Mr. Martinez Is Quite a Character “How Do You Do It?” I Ask Mr. Martinez Always Has Alfred’s on the Phone Again Contents ix Alfred, If I Don’t Find Him I Drop In on Alfred As Poets Get Older They I’m Invited I Keep Wondering When Fulgenzi Alfred’s Getting Famous Dream of Old Peruvian Days I Wake Up 000 Alfred’s Turned Artist, Not Note from the Author BEYOND NAGEEZI 1. I Have Come a Long Way Datura I Wander in the Desert I Hesitate Before a Severed Each Second Lengthens the Distance The Cactus Have Taken Steps I Walk Out into the Desert Flowers Blooming I Moved to the Desert She Picked the Cactus 2. Between Yeso and Fort Sumner Clovis End of the Columbus Day Weekend For Miles There Is Nothing Slower Than Anything What Was There to Do on the Plains Tonight the Moon Is Lost We Looked Under the Sofa Cushions You Loved to Dance Waltzing 3. At Night These There Is an Ancient Belief I Climbed a High Hill I Stepped Outside Walking Down Spiders Scurry A Few Heavy Raindrops 4. In the Late Afternoon I Opened My Window Clouds Are Moving The Wind Is Knocking Winter Has Arrived After the Sun Sets I Follow Dark Winter Birds Scraping Off the Ice Moon and River 5. Drawing Up the Blinds Yesterday As I Drove Past Seeing You from a Distance When You Were Living Walking Through the Forest Returning to Los Alamos The Night Pulsates 6. Another Cold Night Was It Fall 000 You’re in the Yard 7. Chaco Canyon The Mountains Call Me I Skirt the Bisti There Is No Sound Here Silence Exists Here Beyond Nageezi For Lame Deer (Sioux Medicine Man) A Remembered Dream: Thoughts on Becoming a Writer Acknowledgments
Foreword by Joy Harjo Introduction by Rigoberto GonzÁlez DURING THE GROWING SEASON (1978) I Hear the Mare Neigh If There Was Moonlight No Stars No Stars You Listen to the Chickens Not of the Soil Red Dress Way of the Falling Rain ChacÓn and Rain Comanchito Lullaby What Trees Dream About Past Placitas There’s the House We Slept on the Porch The Road to Waldo As Celso Tells It Mentiras Yaqui Indian Blood Her Name Is Morning Letter to Erlinda Hitchhiking Green Something or Other in Kansas If We Got Married AGUA NEGRA (1981) In the RincÓn Benediction Tree The Goat’s Cry Estafiate Too Many Years Agua Negra A Shadow Which Could Be Anything The Silent Bell The Trees on the Hillside Augustina Weaving the Rain A Lying Moon and a Lonely Bird This Dark Winter Leaving Vegas There Is the Wind My Mother Listens One Day Before Christmas Before We Had an Icebox Artificial Flowers CELSO (1980) (1985) Celso Was Born Celso’s Father The Moon and Angels Ash Wednesday Holy Water The Miracle A Thousand Angels Angel Hair Estrellita’s Lips Una CanciÓn de Flores Triste, Triste Son The Dead Are Dancing A Dying Flower for His Heart This Bitterness The Sorrowful Madonna Because the Moon Is a Woman Job Visits Celso Celso’s Dream Celso Talking to the Moon One Night as Celso Santiago, Since I Turned Sixty There Was a Time GOING HOME AWAY INDIAN (1990) Going Home Away He Was Dancing the Yellow Dance He Didn’t Like Me It Was in 1856 In His Dreams Skeleton Indian Marilyn Monroe Indian Skeleton Indian, He’s the Talk I Ever See You Yellow Blouse Woman Skeleton Indian Thinks Skeleton Indian Was a Navajo Here Comes Skeleton There’s Nothing Worse Head Blown Off That’s John Colley He Was Approached Who Was He Welcome, Says Skeleton Raymundo Raymundo, Say You Love Me Note from the Author SAN FERNANDEZ BEAT (1992) Ginsberg’s on the Phone Again Next Time I Come to Visit Mr. Martinez Is Quite a Character “How Do You Do It?” I Ask Mr. Martinez Always Has Alfred’s on the Phone Again Contents ix Alfred, If I Don’t Find Him I Drop In on Alfred As Poets Get Older They I’m Invited I Keep Wondering When Fulgenzi Alfred’s Getting Famous Dream of Old Peruvian Days I Wake Up 000 Alfred’s Turned Artist, Not Note from the Author BEYOND NAGEEZI 1. I Have Come a Long Way Datura I Wander in the Desert I Hesitate Before a Severed Each Second Lengthens the Distance The Cactus Have Taken Steps I Walk Out into the Desert Flowers Blooming I Moved to the Desert She Picked the Cactus 2. Between Yeso and Fort Sumner Clovis End of the Columbus Day Weekend For Miles There Is Nothing Slower Than Anything What Was There to Do on the Plains Tonight the Moon Is Lost We Looked Under the Sofa Cushions You Loved to Dance Waltzing 3. At Night These There Is an Ancient Belief I Climbed a High Hill I Stepped Outside Walking Down Spiders Scurry A Few Heavy Raindrops 4. In the Late Afternoon I Opened My Window Clouds Are Moving The Wind Is Knocking Winter Has Arrived After the Sun Sets I Follow Dark Winter Birds Scraping Off the Ice Moon and River 5. Drawing Up the Blinds Yesterday As I Drove Past Seeing You from a Distance When You Were Living Walking Through the Forest Returning to Los Alamos The Night Pulsates 6. Another Cold Night Was It Fall 000 You’re in the Yard 7. Chaco Canyon The Mountains Call Me I Skirt the Bisti There Is No Sound Here Silence Exists Here Beyond Nageezi For Lame Deer (Sioux Medicine Man) A Remembered Dream: Thoughts on Becoming a Writer Acknowledgments
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