Research Catalog

Title

The buried sea : new and selected poems / Rane Arroyo.

Author

Arroyo, Rane.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Description

xiv, 199 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Reading Rane Arroyo's poems is a little like watching a movie playing at fast forward speed on the TV in your darkened bedroom. The colors pop and snap, the images leap and recede, the colors seem brighter than life - and you can't stop watching even long enough to blink. It's an intimate experience. Even at hyperspeed you can make out the images of friends, family, and lovers (especially lovers) burning rubber across the unblinking screen. And even without a sound track, you can hear the music - a symphony of jazz and samba, salsa and street sounds." "In The Buried Sea, Arroyo has selected poems from his first eleven books - five full-length collections of poems and six chapbooks - and has added nineteen new poems. When asked to describe himself, Arroyo writes that "the answer is easy: I'm a Puerto Rican, gay, Midwestern, educated, former working class, liberal, atheistic, humanist, American, male, ex-Mormon, ex-Catholic, pseudo-Buddhist, teacher, reader, global, and popular culture - informed poet." Readers will find traces of all of these selves in this collection. And Arroyo does make it "easy" to follow the clues. His poems - vivacious, sexy, shiny, sly, pointed, ambitious - are easy to approach and easy to love. But they come with strings attached - like all affairs of the heart - and therein lies so much of their pleasure."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Camino del sol

Uniform Title

Camino del sol.

Subject

• American poetry

ISBN

• 9780816527168 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0816527164 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008032913
• 40016139220

OCLC

• 227015845
• ocn227015845
• SCSB-5448995

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries