Title: The great whirl of exile
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Mexican Americans, Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
LC classification: PS3567.U365 G7 1999b