The chronicles
Subtitle: poems
By: Ramón García
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Pasadena, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9781597094283
Subjects: POETRY / General
Work titles: Poems
Description: "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, Garci;a defamiliarizes well-known tales, rewriting enchanting and disturbing versions of stories we thought we knew.  "--