The poems in ROMANCING GRAVITY navigate through worlds (and words) nestled in nostalgia, rooted in the uncanny, and prime with pain. Striking language and rich images frame gangbangers, classrooms, and family, while trying to carry the burdens that come with being alive. These are poems of baseball and breathing, of heaven and healing. The speakers of the poems wander from one world and into the next, looking down to find their footing, and looking up for proof that they exist. "In ROMANCING GRAVITY Daniel Romo has written a memoir in poetry. It is the poetry of growing up in Southern California, of childhood games and fear, of adolescent dreams and braggadocio, and a young man’s coming into his own as a man and a poet. There are echoes of popular culture and the poems dance to the beat of an urban pulse. There are hallucinatory prose poems and sometimes the speaker sounds like an Old Testament prophet disguised as a homeless man, calling down curses on our decadent world. Lost children wave to us from the floor of the ocean. Do they wave in greeting or are they taking their leave? Either way, the reader waves back, the reader wants to dance or say 'Yes!' to these marvelous poems." Richard Garcia, author of The Persistence of Objects "Daniel Romo’s ROMANCING GRAVITY is a terrific collection—at once edgy, comical, and big-hearted. I was immediately drawn to his streetwise grit, his luminous vision of urban America. These are poems that swagger, that 'boom boom sound' and leave your ears ringing." David Hernandez, author of Hoodwinked "Daniel Romo finds surprising lyricism in school classrooms, TV shows, and yard sales in his southern California neighborhoods. Celebratory, irreverent, and deeply personal, the poems in ROMANCING GRAVITY capture the quotidian in stunning ways and reveal what keeps us earthbound." Molly Bendall, author of Under the Quick

Romancing Gravity: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Romo, Daniel

Poetry

Silver Birch Press

Moonlighting As An Avalanche

Tebot Bach

Waving goodbye to any past requires re-examining lands of inadequacies. It's once again exploring worlds where losing your footing becomes the normal way of walking. It's where haunting memories are made and not able to be forgotten. It's where 90s MTV meets racial inequality. It's where razor-sharp imagery and wit dissect the guts of a man who knows his reflection in mirrors is all too honest. It's where this book of prose poems finally puts it all behind by saying so long, forever¿but not really.

Apologies in Reverse

FutureCycle Press

Bum Knees and Grieving Sunsets

Flowersong Press

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