"In his original, and superbly wrought, new volume of poems,
Maurice Kilwein Guevara is righteous, funny, tender, melancholy,
outrageous, musical, philosophical, terrifying, formal, colloquial,
a realist, a surrealist, and a visionary--all at once. This poet
takes us places we hadn't visited before." --Jaime Manrique, author
of Our Lives Are the Rivers
"It is rare to see contemporary writing so passionately crafted and
so hyper-aware of the conventions of poetry, which is precisely
what gives this poet license to stray from these very conventions.
Here is a body of work at once troublingly beautiful and haunting.
Lovers of language will surely swoon." --MultiCultural Review
"Maurice Kilwein Guevara writes with exacting emotional detail,
whether the subject is an instance of the personal or an instance
of the political, or the merging of the two. The people, images,
and attitudes that inhabit the poems in POEMA are unforgettable."
--Michael Burkard, author of Envelope of Night: Selected and
Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990
"Maurice Kilwein Guevara's POEMA is a necessary book for our time.
His poems 'howl in the trees' and they are made of the stuff of
daily life: 'broken pallets, seeded grass, fingernails, and
tamarack needles.' It is through these things that the poet's
spirit springs forth, angry and tender, grieving and playful.
Guevara has achieved great balance in his poems. POEMA is the work
of a mature and remarkably gifted poet." --Pablo Medina, author of
The Cigar Roller
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