The locales of these poems range from the mountains of western Pennsylvania to the Andes, the subjects from memories of Kilwein Guevara s native Colombia to a New York street scene. What characterizes all of them is precise and surprising language, a brilliance of effect, that establishes him as one of the most original young American poets."
The locales of these poems range from the mountains of western Pennsylvania to the Andes, the subjects from memories of Kilwein Guevara s native Colom...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "With a magical naturalism that refuses to separate the local from the global, Maurice Kilwein Guevara's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SO-AND-SO: POEMS IN PROSE holds our eye close to the Western wound: where cultures mix only by bleeding into each other. These prose chronicles reconfigure fixed assumptions about self and enter a threshold past which facts are as haunted as nightmares and consensual reality has become a waking dream" - William Olsen.
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "With a magical naturalism that refuses to separate the local from the global, Maurice Kilwein Guevara's AUTOBIOGRAPHY ...
