Bøger af Eddie Vega

The most puroest, most tejanoest love poem you've ever read, told with fancy text effects, Each stanza is tricked out like your coolest tio's Impala.

Somos Nopales has been called beautiful, powerful, and chingón. It's the poetic journey of the son of a Mexican immigrant written as he navigates a world where American, Mexican, and Mexican-American cultures collide, co-mingle, and occasionally cooperate. The book serves as a tour into a Nepantlero heart, moving in and among the in-between spaces where the poet often finds himself. Along the journey, readers will meet Vega's family along with other characters which enrich the South Texas narrative. Poems touch on subjects including: identity, immigration, family history, and Chicano culture.

Soon after its founding in 2011, Noir Nation: International Crime FictionNoir Nation's content is often dark, sometimes creepy, sometimes humorous but always at the service of the literary imagination that explores the darker regions of human experience, where weak writing is the only crime. This issue includes Fiction by Erika Nichols-Frazer, Anne Swardson, Christopher Locke, BV Lawson, Ron David, JJ Toner, and John Helden; Police Blotter (Blots) by Ava Black, Frauke Schuster, and David R. Stafford; Nonfiction by J.B. Stevens, Michael A. Gonzales, and James Newman; and Poetry by Rosanne Limoncelli, Laura Hoffman Kelly, George Perreault, Todd Hearon, Steve Butler, Erik Dionne, and Carl Watson.

Cass Loyola, a Cuban merchant seaman, abandons the ocean seas to pursue literature and a better life at a button-down college in New York City. As he struggles to adjust to his new life, he is haunted by the woman he left behind in Cardiff-a flame-haired Wiccan priestess who makes books with inks made from flowers and seashells. As he journeys from literary readings and champagne museum soirees in Manhattan to the soft beds of women in the social register, he becomes less the social brute, but comes to question his adopted values and fears the loss of his soul, whose outline is drawn with inks made of flowers and seashells.

The poems in this first poetry book by a Cuban American writer explore a variety of contemporary and historical themes that combine to create a modern immigrant consciousness, not only immigration from nation state to nation state but also from states of culture and spirit. Beginning with poems that harken back over 40 years of lived experience in the mountains of Cuba, the hills of Galicia, Spain, and the paved streets of Brooklyn and Harlem to poems of love and loss, of life in the military and the high seas, the book grapples with the complex conflicts and tensions of identity, displacement, and autonomy while seeking beauty in all her forms. From the evocative lyricism of the delicately constructed décimas to the sprawling long lines and semantic plays of the free verse, this is a work by a poet writing in the full measure of his powers.