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The Chronicles

The Chronicles

García, Ramón

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1597094285
ISBN13: 9781597094283
Publisher: Red Hen Pr
Published: Apr 14 2015
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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. Ramón García 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, García defamiliarizes well-known tales, rewriting enchanting and disturbing versions of stories we thought we knew.

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