Tiempos Lejanos: Poetic Images from the Past (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) - Softcover

García, Nasario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082633301X ISBN 13: 9780826333018

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2006

Synopsis

For Nasario García, poetry comprises his personal images of the past. The poems in this book, presented in Spanish and English, take us back to the village of Ojo del Padre, now called Guadalupe, New Mexico, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when such villages were about to leap from the preindustrial era into a postindustrial world. García grew up in Ojo del Padre and ably captures the landscape, the village and its people, the birds and animals, both domestic and wild, just before they are extinguished forever.

These poems are deceptively simple. While maintaining the viewpoint of a child, García employs sophisticated rhymes and techniques and suffuses the poems with a rich humor. His work links ancient Spanish literary forms with the vernacular language of the village to produce a profoundly authentic New Mexican rural Spanish.

Because these are poems about everyday things, they have a universal appeal. Simple items--a coffee pot, a teakettle--come lyrically to life like a child's wind-up toy.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Presented in both Spanish and English, these deceptively simple poems use ancient Spanish literary forms and the vernacular language of today to express the author's personal images of remote times--tiempos lejanos.

About the Author:

Master folklorist and native New Mexican Nasario García has published numerous books dealing with Hispanic folklore and the oral history of northern New Mexico and for three decades has dedicated his time to the preservation of Hispanic culture and language of the region whose primary roots rest in Spain and Mexico. He currently lives in Santa Fe.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 082633301X
• ISBN 13: 9780826333018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200