Titles from... / Títulos de... GALVART PUBLISHING
PREMATURE ELEGIES by Alicia Zavala Galván
A chronological "collection of poems that narrate the irreversible approach of death, my husband's death" from cancer. While the author says she wrote the book as a tribute to his courage and dignity in his final year, it is also a very personal chronicle of her own anguish.
"The roses on the cover...are photographs of two roses that bloomed three months after my husband's death from a rose bush that had been destroyed as the ground was being prepared for his burial. I call these 'miracle roses.'"
The book, one of "love, death, and the transcending strength of the soul," has proven to be one of Galván's most popular and powerful collections.
Una colección en orden cronológica "que narra el acercamiento irreversible de la muerte de mi esposo" de cáncer. Aunque la autora dice que escribió el libro como un tributo a la valentía y dignidad en él ultimo ano de vida, también es una crónica muy personal de su propia angustia.
"Las rosas en la portada...son fotografías de dos rosas que florecieron tres meses después de la muerte de mi esposo, de un rosal que había sido destruido para preparar la tierra para su sepultura. Les llamo 'rosas milagrosas.'"
El libro, es sobre amor, "muerte, y el poder transcendente del alma," ha mostrado ser una colección más popular y fuerte de Galván.
Recently-
your skin
has grown
cold
and gray
Recently-
your lips
are no longer
colored
by passion
Recently-
your eyes
have lost
the spark
of life
Recently-
your brain
Recently-
your voice
Recently...
The infusion
machine
has started
beeping
an insane tune
A parody of
his life
ebbing out
Trade paperback, 6x9, xvi, 182 pp.
ISBN 0-9644836-5-3, 1998.
In English.
$15.95
Like Tennyson, Milton and Millay, Mrs. Galván expresses the
profound personal experiences of death that touch every human spirit.
Her elegiac verses sign a sad song about human loss. They are
hauntingly melancholic.
--Prof. William Bradford Bugg (1940-2002)
The anthropologist Valcarcel says we can arrive at universals only
through particulars. Edna St. Vincent Millay has a character say: By
this light, no tree is where it stood. These poems are made up of
particulars. Their impact and freshness derives from the suddenly new
view or perception. The familiar becomes mythic; the ordinary,
symbolic of a particular grief, which then is transmuted into
universal grief. These emotions dance naked at the holy place.
--from the Prologue by Prof. John Igo, author of The Mitotes
of John Igo (1989), Charco Martinez (1997), Oenone (1999), Bozzetti
(2001), On Poetry and Poetics (2001).