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San Jose. 1992. Chusma House Publications. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0962453641. 1st Book Of Poetry From The National Book Award Winning Author Of A Parrot In The Oven. 65 pages. paperback. Cover by Ramiro Martinez. Signed by the Author. keywords: Poetry Latino America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In June 1984, when Victor Martinez first began writing the poems that would coalesce into ‘Caring for a House, ' he wrote in his journal: ‘Nothing is breathing between me and a cloud. Yesterday I wrote a poem I believe is about how everything is superimagined by everything else, how a bird's flight in Mexico may very well be written in me, in my soul, or mind, or whatever it is that gets both our wings started. I'm looking for a staring off point, a platform or branch that will be both source and propellant of my poetry. When I address a poem, for instance, when I talk about why I am made up of time ‘and' letters, am I supposed to know if the future is a big hole I'm going to fall into, a place I will never return from, or whether the future has already happened and the past incomplete? When I begin to talk, should I assume there are gods or a God? Should I premise a false one or uncover one? Should I confirm it's death or try to kill it? Achieving a starting off, without dragging out any costumes, or stories about being poor or abused. is what I've been accomplishing lately. Like everyone else, I've been thrown into the world, the same as that bird in Mexico, literally hurled into this house of beauty and horror, and I want to value what I've already done and what has been done to me and others, and write it down. for something. for the bird and for me. ' ‘Caring for a House' is the result of that ‘starting off. ' ‘Caring for a House' is the long anticipated first book of poems by Victor Martinez. inventory #23438.
