E. A. “Tony” Mares

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Poetry
For the librotraficantes and all who love books
Selected poems of Ángel González -- translator's tribute to a great Spanish poet
“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
“Mares proposes not a myth of bloodletting, but one of survival in love and goodness.”
--Bruce-Novoa
POETRY
These poems are a lamentation and a tribute to the Río Grande that flows from snow-capped mountains to the sea, and whose fidelity, in spite of poisonous threat, endures. Renny Golden -- from the Introduction
Social science, history, memoir
This work deals with community organization via networks from the local to the global level.

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The Unicorn Poem and Flowers and Songs of Sorrow

My first book. The Unicorn refers to the Unicorn Tapestries in the Cloisters.

excerpt from "Flowers and Songs of Sorrow"

reflections on three Aztec poems


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We who enjoyed the festival of flower and song . . .
We who now walk the asphalt streets
Named Londres, Hamburgo, Amberes, Liverpool . . .

We are beggars in rags
Who look with eyes alert at Mexicans and Americans
In three-piece suits and silk dresses.

We remember flowers and songs.
Once we were warriors and people of wisdom.
We remember flowers and songs.