A Meal Like That by Albert Garcia
With his uncommon common sense, Albert Garcia makes readers stop and pay attention. Again and again reading this collection I found myself halted by the simple astuteness of an observation, before I knew love is pain / wrapped in shining paper . . . . His unlikely choices of words or images often seem somehow exactly correct, once his context is studied, your hair plumed like ink from a squid. Best of all, an ongoing sense of wonder at life itself pervades these singular expressions of mortality and more. -Gerald Haslam, author of Coming of Age in California and Grace Period With extraordinary attentiveness to the world around us, Albert Garcia explores the important questions: How to find equilibrium in a universe where Isaiah's wolf and lamb do not dwell peacefully beside each other-where just the idea of standing on a volcano's shoulder.makes you brace for balance-where awareness means accepting the fragility and underside of each moment. I am grateful for Garcia's wise, humane and wide-awake look into these complexities-of daily life, of marriage, of personal and global history-that enlarges us with its insightful and compassionate clarity. --Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of The Fortunate Islands Who wouldn't love A Meal Like That, a moment we look back on when the complexities of our family life and our own often-bewildering inner life mingle at a table, and we are happy and sated, if sometimes a bit unsettled? Over the years, Albert Garcia has become a master at isolating such intimate, revealing moments of wonder, and then evoking them in his well-crafted and graceful poems. In this collection, those moments are divided between memories of a boy growing up on a ranch in the Sacramento Valley and those of a young family man living in that same valley. His voice is quiet and his word choices are unpretentious, but make no mistake, this is a poet who offers up the best fare, poems that satisfy and that will endure. Take a place at the table, and may we offer you Cussing in the 4th Grade, Dig, Early Morning, Studying Art, or a little November Task? -Gary Thompson, author of One Thing After Another| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780989872454 |
| ISBN 10 | 0989872459 |
| Title | A Meal Like That |
| Author | Albert Garcia |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Brick Road Poetry Press |
| Year published | 2015-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 132 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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