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At the Edge of the Western Wave
"What I love about this collection is that it catches perfectly that special sense of rural Ireland which might be described as mixture of raw satirical humour, tragedy, and a kind of yearning for love and connection in a society that feels a constant tension between materialism and spirituality. At the Edge of the Western Wave is a big and sweeping enough collection to be able to accommodate these themes and their nuances.--Ger Kileen
The Keys to the Cottage
"In 1954, documentarian Dorothea Lange traveled to the West of Ireland to photograph that region's stark, rural life. While the 20th century succeeded in modernizing much of the world, the people of western Ireland held fiercely to the past and their traditions. But beyond a world frozen in black and white photographs are the stories of those people. And in 1972, an Irish-American--improbably named Carlos Reyes--set out to find those stories in a county known as Clare. Reyes--who grew up in a family of seasonal farm workers in western Oregon--was intent on discovering his ancestral roots. What he found in the West of Ireland was more than lineage. For a pittance Reyes purchased a 300-year-ol...
Guilt in Our Pockets
This new collection by the internationally known poet and translator Carlos Reyes adds to the rich treasure chest of poems from a restless and inveterate traveler whose work has taken us to Spain, Ecuador, France, Ireland, the Arctic, the Galapagos, Mexico, Panama, Italy, and now India. In these poems a talent for visual texture and detail, coupled with the poet's familiarity with a huge variety of social and cultural matrixes, produces a close and sometimes troubling view of the contrast between American assumptions of privilege and India's blend of fantastically rich culture and the bitterly desperate social and economic circumstances to be found there in the lives of common folk.
The Book of Shadows
"Over the years Carlos Reyes has written poems of the highest order and it's a pleasure to see so many of them gathered together in The Book of Shadows. This is a necessary book that clearly shows the author's deep humanity and his sophisticated skill; like all first-rate work it returns our lives to us. In poem after poem readers are given those quick shocks of recognition which make them say, Yes, this is the way it is! Such an important contribution to our literature deserves to be recognized and honored by everyone who cares about the art of poetry."--Vern Rutsala
Three Alarm Fire
With a diverse set of characters and experiences, Juan Carlos Reyes's debut fiction collection examines the range of grief and healing we navigate as Americans. Reyes explores themes of immigration, identity, family legacy, sexuality, trauma, and what belonging means, as well as the cultural tensions between us that can be downright explosive. By turns tragic and heartfelt, arresting and funny, Three Alarm Fire is a microcosm of modern life, and it introduces readers to an incisive new voice in contemporary fiction.
Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart
On the heels of The Book of Shadows: New and Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2009) comes Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart. In his fifth full-length collection, poet and translator Carlos Reyes offers a lyrical and sometimes surreal vision of our world. The edgy tone of this collection represents a departure from his earlier work, but the omnibus quality of this book offers something for everyone.
Impala
Desde el principio, Juan Carlos Reyes nos guía por un universo pleno de recuerdos, rituales, secretos. Los treinta y nueve textos que componen este libro se desplazan con soltura de un género a otro, siendo a veces microrrelatos, ensayos disfrazados de notas, o esbozos de guiones para algún cortometraje. La narración se confunde de pronto con una libreta de apuntes, y pareciera que estamos ante la revelación del diario secreto de un explorador que registra los misterios que descubre: un pez que habla, una mujer de siete cabezas, simios escritores… pero también todo aquello que piensa y se cuestiona, atónito ante un mundo que lo deslumbra y lo confunde.
Open Doors
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Carlos Reyes.
Nightmarks
Nightmarks contains poems of work, community, and love, all told with the sharp, rapid line of which Carlos Reyes is a master. "Of the many strange, tangy things that happen in the Northwest, Carlos Reyes is a connoisseur. He serves up glimpses and sounds and smells like little cameos and jewels for his poems. Entering his book is like beginning a tour of the country, a walk through the woods, a trip along aromatic trails, the smell of cedar and the drip of water are with you." -William Stafford
Poems of Love and Madness / Poemas de Amor Y Locura
This stunning bilingual collection contains poems of passion, longing, and wonder by some of the greatest poets ever to write in the Spanish language, including Pablo Neruda, Josefina de la Torre, Gaston Baquero, Luis Cernuda, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Mario Benedetti, Angela Figura Ayamerich, Jose Maria Zonta, and many others. The poems bristle with images of extraordinary power and invention, captured perfectly with the lush darkness and verbal acceleration at the cetner of the Spanish literary tradition.
