Lomesome Pine by Cesar Gutierrez $9 ISBN: 1-931247-31-5
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ABOUT Cesar Gutierrez Cesar Gutierrez grew up in San Antonio, Texas. And, after spending some time in New York, he and his wife, Tanya, moved back this fall. A graduate of St. Mary's University, Cesar's poetry was encpouraged by the poet and publisher Cyra Dumitru and developed through his active participation in the St. Mary's University Poets and Writers group. | |||||||||
Lomesome Pine
$9.00 ISBN: 1-931247-31-5 "“These poems by Cesar Gutierrez are rooted in deep attention to the moment—recreated moments that took place during his years of growing up in a suburban San Antonio neighborhood. They reflect a sharpness of mind, a sensitivity of skin, a slyness of humor and a sad witness as the speaker of this powerful collection examines reality seen from inside a drainage ditch, atop a cooling summer roof, walking barefoot to the mailbox, noting that the street sign still bears misspelled words. This collection asks the question: where is the freedom implied by the American dream when the last tree in the neighborhood is gone, when the natural places that engaged a youthful imagination are paved over, when next-door neighbors feel so distant? It is a powerful irony that such crafted poetry of attention reveals the dullness of awareness that can become the price of middle-class life.”—Cyra S. Dumitru, author of What The Body
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Lomesome Pine It wasn’t that everybody had a nasty little secret, It was hard finding the couple made of the man with a drinking problem Maybe after five or seven years Some day we’d figure out what happened The main problem
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