Susto - Archuleta, Tommy

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Résumé :
Surreal yet earthbound, orphaned yet mothered more than most, comforting yet disturbing--Tommy Archuleta's Susto surveys many settings: the body, the soul, the terrain the soul encounters upon leaving the body. But the setting is also the high desert landscape that is the poet's northern New Mexico home, a land whose beauty today is as silencing and brutal as was the colonization of the region and her Anasazi descendants by Archuleta's Spanish antipasados. In Susto, loss is everywhere to be found, though this work is not merely a concerted meditation on lament. Rather, it is part unearthed family album...

Biographie:
Tommy Archuleta is a mental health and substance abuse counselor for the New Mexico Corrections Department. His work has appeared in the New England Review, the Laurel Review, Lily Poetry Review, the Cortland Review, Guesthouse, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series. A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, he lives with his family on the Cochiti Reservation.
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Sommaire:
part unlocked diary...