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Moonmilk and Other Poems by Carmen Hernandez Peena, Carlos Hernandez Peena (Paperback / softback, 2006)

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These poems are short dances under the crescent moon. They carry a dreamy perfume that is light in the air. There are ancestors and tricksters around every corner. Hernandez Pena's influences are the daily papers and his ancient Pre-Columbian family's posited tales all artfully played in stop-motion and flute-whistle. To write poetry, Carlos Hernandez Pena gives up his native Spanish and uses English-his 'alien language.' This otherness of his English allows him to write, as he says, 'from ather side of the world, ' aquellos ojos verdes, where tarantulas are amicable drunks and bottles are bruised. His wild new language keeps him awake 'through a white night' and wakens us to surprising lands where he asks whales to 'name this living' and icicles to breathe on our shoulders. His second tongue makes him puzzle the cold walrus and send the 'quetzal morning' flashing before our eyes. His new speech allows Hernandez Pena to retell the old riddles in a new world: the 'Mobius strip confection' becomes the 'giant waves' that 'spin a riddle between birth and death.' We recognize his other world in our own mouths, and taste it new as 'sparks of sw.' -Lois Marie Harrod, author of Put Your Sorry Side Out

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Ragged Sky Press
ISBN-10
0963309269
ISBN-13
9780963309266
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105276027

Product Key Features

Author
Carmen Hernandez Peena, Carlos Hernandez Peena
Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies

Additional Product Features

Series Title
Ragged Sky Poetry
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
03/02/2006
Country of Publication
United States

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