Every Day is Magic: Ada Limón
In her 2015 collection, Bright Dead Things, a National Book Award finalist for poetry, Ada Limón writes of moving to Kentucky: “Confession: I did not want to live here.” It’s perhaps not a surprising sentiment coming from a coastally oriented person who was raised in Northern California, attended college in Seattle, and then spent over a decade in New York City.
But Limón and her husband, Lucas, have been in Lexington for seven years now and the effects of settling into this place are noticeable in her new book, The Carrying (Milkweed, Aug.). It’s a phenomenally lively and attentive collection replete with the trappings of living a little closer to nature. While Bright Dead Things is marked by a preponderance of light, such as images of fireflies and neon signs, The Carrying features numerous appearances by various trees, birds, and beetles. Limón also demonstrates a greater willingness to be explicit in naming colors, particularly green. “It’s crazy green, the whole book,” she says. “Lexington is the greenest place I’ve ever lived.” Similarly, where in Bright Dead Things, Limón tells a lot of stories and anecdotes, in The Carrying she is very present in her thoughts and experiences.
As it turns out, these shifts in focus have another, altogether unexpected source. While putting Bright Dead Things together, Limón was diagnosed with chronic vestibular neuronitis, which can cause bouts of vertigo. “If I’m really having vertigo, it’s pretty intense and I really have to focus,”
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Gabriel García Márquez, Conjurer of Literary Magic, Dies at 87
Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87
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Journalist Alfredo Corchado says it’s ‘Midnight in Mexico’
By Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
June 14, 2013, 8:00 a.m.
Journalist Alfredo Corchado has had a front seat to many of the most important events of recent Mexican history. In the 1980s he covered the protests in Northern Mexico that foreshadowed the end of one-party rule, and he was later a Mexico City correspondent for the Dallas Morning News. In 2000, he conducted the first interview with President-elect Vicente Fox, the opposition candidate…
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The Writings of Eusebio Chacón (Google eBook)
UNM Press, Mar 16, 2012 – Literary Collections – 288 pages
Eusebio Chacón, born in Peñasco, New Mexico, is arguably one of the most significant and most overlooked figures in New Mexico’s cultural heritage. He earned a law degree from Notre Dame and returned to practice law in Trinidad, Colorado. He served as a district attorney for Las Animas County, Colorado, and as a translator for the U.S. Court of Private Land Claims. In 1898, he began to write and edit for El Progreso, in which many of his articles exposed the unjust treatment of Hispanics in Colorado and New Mexico. He was also New Mexico’s first novelist, and took pride in his
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We Became Mexican American: How Our Immigrant Family Survived to Pursue the American Dream
CB Gil
… parents especially in sensing that we were no longer Mexican like them, that we were becoming,
and in the end, became Mexican American. … As an honest storyteller and professional historian,
I felt obliged to explain that she was referring to the great Mexican Rebellion of 1910 …
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Once Upon a Time in Texas: Researching Contemporary Mexican American Fiction at TCU
A Kárai
… Background to Research: Text and Context in Recent Chicana/o Literary Narratives
On professional forums both home and abroad, I am often asked what makes me
interested in Mexican American culture, of all things. I could …
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Thomson Reuters Recognizes Leading Mexican Researchers for Their Contributions to Science and Innovation
Reuters
Research in Science and Social Sciences/Arts & Humanities further progress in food technology, health and psychology MEXICO CITY, MEXICO, March 16, 2012 – The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters recognized the most highly cited
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Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature By Marissa K. López
MK López – 2011
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k. lópez a New York University Press new york and london Page 6. …
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NEGOTIATIONS OF POWER IN MEXICAN AND MEXICAN AMERICAN WOMEN‟S NARRATIVES
CL McNabb – 2011
… This thesis examines casual storytelling among Mexican and Mexican American women in Oaxaca,
Mexico and Eugene, Oregon. … PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Graduate Teaching Fellow, Folklore
Archivist, University of Oregon Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Winter 2010 …
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Ethnicity in the Garden: Figurations of Ecopastoral in Mexican American Literature
D der Philosophie
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Inaugural-Dissertation … as well as in the introductions to the individual analytic main chapters.
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