American Book Award winning poet Aaron A. Abeyta finds beauty in the unexpected, whether it's the melody of a raindrop striking a tin can or the complicated and intensely personal definitions of poetry itself. As Orion Falls, a spectacular and intricate narrative array of poems, exposes and magnifies the constellations of everyday life-with its memory, pain, and joy. Weaving nostalgia, mythology, and wrenching passion, Abeyta crafts language with exceptional care, and his achievement is a collection that speaks the truths we know from our own experience. An accessible entry into a self-contained world of the purest loves imaginable, As Orion Falls is a feast that feeds our secret dreams.

As Orion Falls

Literature & Fiction

Abeyta, Aaron A.

Poetry

Ghost Road Pub Group Inc

Fiction. Embedded in the novel's winding tales, memory and dreams mingle and sing, asking us to question our preconceptions about history--whose version becomes truth? Spanning decades and generations, RISE, DO NOT BE AFRAID serves as social commentary and is a lyric, fervent prayer for redemption in a time when there is urgent need for both. "Abeyta's language is tender and prophetic, his characters made of fragrant cedars and holy myth. To read this book is to enter a time and place where newborn children with psychic tongues drift in dreams, a space that defies language and the notion that la vida is a linear ride. His words shift and rush, from solid ice to silent rivulets, shaping, with steady calculation, the canyon of his people's history"--Tim Hernandez.

Rise, Do Not Be Afraid

Ghost Road Press

The first novel by master poet, Pushcart nominee, winner of the American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and recipient of the prestigious Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship.Rise, Do Not Be Afraid is a compelling, intertwined story of a small New Mexico town and its people, the presence of shadowy gods, and the heart of human nature. These fantastical and almost whimsical tales are based in myth and biblical traditions, and the characters are rooted deeply in the past, returning to pass down the truth of their town-Santa Rita, New Mexico. Through the eyes and mouths of abeyta's characters, we are carried through a private and deeply personal history. aaron a. abeyta's allegorical retelling of his childhood past, woven in with his own beliefs and mythologies, brings an adventurous tone to history. Rise, Do Not Be Afraid is a lyrical and adamant prayer for redemption and salvation in a time where there is none to be spared."Original, creative, inclusive, imaginative ... abeyta's craftsmanship and artistry is clear. Pick a line, any line, and you will be swept away by the rhythm and meter and metaphor."-Laura Pritchett, winner of the PEN USA Award and author of Stars Go Blue"There is no other voice that conjures the sky and keeps count of stars as human migrations, moving, fading, and bursting anew as abeyta's."-Juan Felipe Herrera, former United States Poet Laureate

United States

WordFire Press, LLC

WordFire Press

ancestor of fire

Lithic Press

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Tonino, Leath

Arendt, Kristen

Beauregard, Nancy

Brubaker, Corrinne

Literary

Independently published

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