Carlos Reyes' collection showcases his profound humanity and refined poetic skill, offering readers a series of resonant poems that evoke immediate recognition and reflection. Each piece serves as a mirror to life, capturing shared experiences and emotions that resonate deeply. This significant anthology stands as a testament to the power of poetry, inviting appreciation from all who value the art form.
Carlos Reyes, a celebrated poet and translator from Portland, showcases his latest poetry collection, Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart. His extensive background includes fellowships from prestigious institutions such as the Oregon Arts Commission and Yaddo, along with international experiences in Spain and Ireland. Reyes has also served as poet-in-residence at notable national parks, including Joshua Tree and Acadia, enriching his work with diverse landscapes and cultural influences.
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Exploring themes of work, community, and love, this poetry collection serves as a navigational aid for the poet amidst life's challenges. With a keen and rapid style, Carlos Reyes crafts verses that illuminate the darker aspects of existence, providing insight and guidance through personal struggles. The poems reflect a quest for meaning and connection, showcasing the transformative power of poetry in navigating life's turbulent waters.
Carlos Reyes, a poet and translator based in Portland, Oregon, has received prestigious fellowships, including the Heinrich Boll Fellowship, allowing him to write on Achill Island, Ireland. His experiences extend to residencies at notable locations such as Yaddo, Fundaci n Valpara in Spain, Lost Horse Ranger Station in Joshua Tree National Park, and the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska. These diverse settings enrich his creative work and contribute to his literary voice.
This collection catches perfectly that special sense of rural Ireland which might be described as mixture of raw satirical humor, tragedy, and a kind of yearning for love and connection in a society that feels a constant tension between materialism and spirituality. "At the Edge of the Western Wave" is a big and sweeping enough collection to be able to accommodate these themes and their nuances: a shop-front, a wink of light, an Hiberno-English phrase, a name, a place name--and evoke a whole way of life.
All poems included in this poetry collection reveal an impressive vitality or mental power of the poet. The value of these poems for all readers is perennial. We find here an immense variety of poems. Most important from the literary point of view, the style of the poet has a richness of effect that creates an enduring fascination.
In his tenth volume of poetry, Irish American poet Carlos Reyes returns once again to Ireland. The poems in this collection capture the stark rural life that now has mostly passed, pushed aside and forgotten with the arrival of the "Celtic Tiger." Sitka spruce has supplanted the peat bog, and the slane rusts in the barn. The iconic haycocks that dotted the countryside are now replaced with huge black bags of sileage. This book paints a lyrical picture of a world gone. As Yeats' said, a way of life "all changed, utterly changed." Carlos Reyes first came to Ireland in the early 1970s, when he purchased a three-hundred-year-old cottage in County Clare. Acadia National Park and Joshua Tree National Park among others have hosted him as poet-in-residence. When not traveling, Reyes makes his home in Portland, Oregon.
These poems aptly show profoundly imaginative power. No doubt, the poet is an adept in the intimate and convincing analysis of emotions.
"This sequence of 30 fierce, lovely poems is set in the 1940s and '50s at the edge of Greater Appalachia, in west-central Missouri, a world at once exotic and familiar. The poems provide a border state setting for folkways that arrived--two centuries before, in the 1700s--from that much older Border Country, the northern counties of England, the Scottish lowlands, and what would become Northern Ireland."--from the introduction by Philip Garrison