E. A. “Tony” Mares

Selected Works

Poetry
Casi Toda La Música y otros poemas/Almost All the Music and other poems
Selected poems of Ángel González -- translator's tribute to a great Spanish poet
With the Eyes of a Raptor
“We feel the pull of yearning... elegiac grief... inscribed in this raptor’s nest of memory.”
--Cecile Piñeda, author of Love Queen of the Amazon
The Unicorn Poem and Flowers and Songs of Sorrow
“Mares proposes not a myth of bloodletting, but one of survival in love and goodness.”
--Bruce-Novoa
Social science, history, memoir
Resolana: Emerging Chicano Dialogues on Community and Globalization, by Atencio, Montiel, Mares
This work deals with community organization via networks from the local to the global level.

The Blog/El Blog/La Bloga

For openers

August 4, 2009

Tags: poetry, community, life circumstances

For openers, here is a space where English and Spanish will live comfortably side by side. If you are monolingual in English, don't worry, skip the Spanish posts, or if you are intrigued, try to figure them out. Same goes for persons monolingual in Spanish. Try the English. It won't hurt you. This is a postmodern world so let's enjoy it and not get hung up in local, regional and linguistic differences.

My most recent book, "Resolana," co-authored with Miguel Montiel and Tomás Atencio, is concerned with families and communities trying to live with dignity in a globalized world where goods are more important than people. It isn't a book of poems or about poetry, yet, in a sense, "Resolana" is related to poetry because (more…)