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With his uncommon common sense, Albert Garcia makes readers stop and pay attention. Again and again reading this collection I found myself halted by the simple astuteness of an observation, "before I knew love is pain / wrapped in shining paper . . . ." His unlikely choices of words or images often seem somehow exactly correct, once his context is studied, "your hair plumed like ink from a squid." Best of all, an ongoing sense of wonder at life itself pervades these singular expressions of mortality and more. —Gerald Haslam, author of Coming of Age in California and Grace Period With extraordinary attentiveness to the world around us, Albert Garcia explores the important questions: How to find equilibrium in a universe where Isaiah’s wolf and lamb do not dwell peacefully beside each other—where “just the idea of standing on a volcano’s shoulder…makes you brace for balance”—where awareness means accepting the fragility and underside of each moment. I am grateful for Garcia’s wise, humane and wide-awake look into these complexities—of daily life, of marriage, of personal and global history—that enlarges us with its insightful and compassionate clarity. --Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of The Fortunate Islands Who wouldn’t love A Meal Like That, a moment we look back on when the complexities of our family life and our own often-bewildering inner life mingle at a table, and we are happy and sated, if sometimes a bit unsettled? Over the years, Albert Garcia has become a master at isolating such intimate, revealing moments of wonder, and then evoking them in his well-crafted and graceful poems. In this collection, those moments are divided between memories of a boy growing up on a ranch in the Sacramento Valley and those of a young family man living in that same valley. His voice is quiet and his word choices are unpretentious, but make no mistake, this is a poet who offers up the best fare, poems that satisfy and that will endure. Take a place at the table, and may we offer you “Cussing in the 4th Grade,” “Dig,” “Early Morning, Studying Art,” or a little “November Task”? —Gary Thompson, author of One Thing After Another
A Meal Like That, by Albert Garcia- Amazon Sales Rank: #3054073 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .33" w x 6.00" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 132 pages
About the Author Albert Garcia is the author of two previously published books of poems, Rainshadow (Copper Beech Press) and Skunk Talk (Bear Star Press). He has also published Digging In: Literature for Developing Writers (Prentice Hall). His individual poems have been published in North American Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry East, Willow Springs, Southern Poetry Review, Yankee, and many other journals while also being featured in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry and Garrison Keillor’s A Writer’s Almanac. Albert taught community college English for eighteen years, and for the last ten years has served as a dean at Sacramento City College. He lives with his wife and family in Wilton, California, a rural area outside of Sacramento, where he grows most varieties of fruit trees that thrive in the region and several that don’t.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Gunpowder By singe Burying a beloved cat and exposing the gunpowder of emotion igniting through the occasion, the continued attempts to understand the one we love despite and through their cryptic actions, the past infusing the air like incense in mass – A Meal Like That considers all of these as the basic and sacred materials of consciousness. In this book, Albert Garcia explores the wilds and contradictions of happiness, as well as the pleasures of art. From “Cussing in the 4th Grade,” he writes: “But we were now part / of another order, those who knew / the dirty alley and back door of our language, / who could praise, who could cut, who could sing / down the halls, across the blacktop, beyond.” He records the shifting currents of daily life in the country, in the family, in the loaded moment that yields both meaning and unspooling mystery. Garcia is part of another order: those who trace the ghost of existence, the resonating vibrancy, sorrow, and joy that trail from our daily routines and acts, so much more complicated than those words might suggest. He casts and lands some of the hidden fish that drift through the river underneath our own drifting boats. It’s a book of beauty and grief, a journal of the ongoing vicissitudes of that continuing flow.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. 10-year wait for new Garcia collection By G. Brewer I’ve waited a decade for a new collection of Albert Garcia’s lovely and graceful poetry. At last, A Meal Like That has arrived. The pleasures begin immediately, with the opening poem “Mosquitofish” and its delightful explanation of the book’s odd title. Throughout, there’s the quiet force, the disarming directness and unadorned lyricism that I expect and admire in a Garcia poem. And the collection just gets stronger as it proceeds, with each section, as unlikely as it seems, even better than the one before. So many good poems: “Free Throws,” “Trash Fish,” “What I Wanted to Say” (“Okay, whether I was right or wrong, / I was wrong.”), and to open the final section, “Fat” and the heartrending “November Task.” Al Garcia hasn’t received the accolades he deserves in the poetry game. A Meal Like That is his finest and most ambitious collection and the best book of new poetry I’ve read all summer.
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