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-Blas Falconer Gabe Gomez practices a kind of poetic samsara, wandering across various real and symbolic locations to reflect upon the cycles of life. Throughout, he meditates on migration, racist politics, environmental justice, and the death of parents.
The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity is an anthology of 20 essays that, according to its co-editor Blas Falconer, aims to counter a narrow perspective of Latino/a writers and honor their diversity.
A Question of Gravity and Light. It is rare to find contemporary American poetry that speaks to readers with engaging directness, free of pretense or posturing. That is exactly the kind of poetry that Blas Falconer writes.
This book sheds light on the dangers of abandoning identity by accepting cultural stereotypes and ignoring diversity within diversity. These contributors caution against judging literature based on the race of the author and lament the use of the term Hispanic to erase individuality.
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Blas Falconer is the author of Rara Avis (forthcoming Four Way Books 2024); Forgive the Body This Failure (Four Way Books, 2018); The Foundling Wheel (Four Way Books, 2012); A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press, 2007); and The Perfect Hour (Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, 2006).
Free to do what we wanted, my sister, my brother, my cousins, and I spent our days galavanting in the streets. We palmed quarters from my grandmother’s dresser to play pinball in the local bar, where older gentlemen sat at dominoes for hours.
Blas Falconer is the author of two poetry collections, The Foundling Wheel and A Question of Gravity and Light, and a coeditor of two essay collections: The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange.
