The great whirl of exile
Subtitle: poems
By: by Leroy V. Quintana.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Willimantic, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Poetry.
Description: For those who know his history, it is no surprise that Leroy V. Quintana is a great story-teller in his poetry. He was raised in Albuquerque by Mexican grandparents, who told him numerous folk-tales (Cuentos) as a child. His work is endowed not only with a raucous frontier humor, but also a remarkable emotional range, from comic depictions of adolescent love to moving poems of death and loss, to reflections on his war experience in Vietnam.