The Chronicles

By evoking the Old Testament book referenced in the title of the collection, The Chronicles recounts distinctive aspects of a Mexican American's presence in California. Fairy tales, bible stories, and Greek myths are reinvented as the genealogy of a poet obsessed by memory and the transformations of dislocation. The Frog Prince longs to be a frog again, Sleeping Beauty doesn't know who she is, Medusa is a misunderstood femme-fatale, Bluebeard is a desired eccentric, and Marilyn Monroe wins the first annual Miss Artichoke beauty contest. Ram?n Garc?a brings to life landscapes populated by misfits who find--like their mythical counterparts--a sense of belonging between the marvelous and the ordinary, memory and reality. In coming to terms with the intricacies of immigration and migration, Garc?a defamiliarizes well-known tales, rewriting enchanting and disturbing versions of stories we thought we knew.

Author: Ramón García
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 04/14/2015
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781597094283
ISBN10: 1597094285
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
The author of Other Countries (What Books Press, 2010) and Ricardo Valverde (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), Ramón García has published poetry in a variety of journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry 1996, Ambit, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of US-Hispanic Literature (1998), Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Los Angeles Review, and Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas. A founding member of the Glass Table Collective, an artist collective formed in 2008, he is a professor at California State University, Northridge and lives in Los Angeles.