When There Were No Borders
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Product Description Raúl Sánchez's long-awaited 2nd book is a gift, a gateway, a harvest. These poems present and re-present our "tongue," our "language," our "culture and pride." Steeped in history and "blood blood blood" unforgotten and dignified, these poems are never what you expect yet are as familiar as an ancestral landscape. Deeply layered like culture itself, this book es una flor, multi-petalled, many-voiced - sin frontera and utterly unique. From rich love poems to Nerudaesque declamaciónes to canciones and cantos, this book represents as we were, and are, When There Were No Borders, by presenting the multiverse that is US of America through the voice of one, Raúl Sánchez, crossing borders. Review Sánchez writes borderless in borderless times. He breaks through the ancient Mexica figure ofdeath and transformation, Coatlicue, to poems as pyramids, to the Sea of the Salish in thePacific Northwest and on to cool-rebel Pachuco dialect of the US-Mexico borderlands. He cookson a rotating rainbow-colored pan, he spices, he refuses to present his "papers" at the borderstop. There are nectars, harvests, the always-farmworker fields, a detention center to tend towith resources and a poet. Open this collection - hold on, there is a "pirinola," an everspinning umbrella-shaped candy with a pointed tip burning colors, lights and stories that willtake you to Latinx multi-dimensional magic. A precise, moving mural, this text of visitations of"life, precious life!" Sanchez's delights as he writes, as he tears across those borderlines, dancing. Magnificent poetics to take home and to take you out.Juan Felipe HerreraPoet Laureate of the United States Emeritus About the Author Raúl Sánchez is a Seattle-based author and mentor of bilingual poetry. His previous book AllOur Brown-Skinned Angels published by MoonPath Press, launched his name into the roster ofpublished poets. His cultural background allows him to use passages from his early life inMéxico City and apply the lessons learned in his work. Since retirement, he has volunteered atthe King County Juvenile Detention Center mentoring incarcerated youth through the PONGOmethod. His mentoring in the schools (WITS and Jack Straw Cultural Center), has been essentialto his poetic growth because as he put it The youth see the world differently than him, therefore he learns from their outlook. Raúl is an avid spiral thinker, driving in a straight linethen suddenly turning left or right, but never loosing the reader in the detour. Raúl is a self-taught poet who keeps on writing, teaching, helping the youth, and reading in public, allowinghis voice to carry the words like dandelion fuzzies into the ears of those who listen. For moreinformation please visit www.rsancheztlaltecatl.com and www.picturesofpoets.com
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