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 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.