The Lost: Children of the River anthology by The Raving Press is now officially out and ready to ship. There are several ways to obtain your copy. I will describe three of them here.
1.) Go to Amazon.com and insert the search: "Lost: Children of the River The Raving Press". It's a mouthful, yes, but if you insert only the title you get unrelated results. Save time. Copy and paste from here. 2.) Click through to our Createspace E-store This method helps us, a small business/organization earn some royalties, therefore you would be supporting not only the arts but also small business. Win-win. 3.) Stay tuned on this blog to catch our book release events which will be announced soon and come out to meet us in person. Books at the events will be sold at a discount to those who sign our attendance list and give us their email address. Another win-win! Thank you for dropping by. Keep coming back for more. Special note about "Lost: Children of the River" if you contributed artwork, photography, or literature we want to gift you a copy of this publication. Please come out to our events to get your copy and perhaps read your poetry from the book or talk about your contribution. Thank you. Edward Vidaurre is the author of four books. I Took My Barrio On A Road Trip, (Slough Press 2013), Insomnia (El Zarape Press 2014), Beautiful Scars: Elegiac Beat Poems (El Zarape Press 2015), and his latest collection Chicano Blood Transfusion (FlowerSong Books) was published this year. Vidaurre is the founder of Pasta, Poetry, and Vino--a monthly open mic gathering of artists, poets, and musicians. He resides in McAllen, TX with his wife and daughter.
Own the Lost: Children of the River anthology! I recorded the video of this very special dance troupe at the City of Edinburg auditorium. The concept here is such a statement that I thought it was definitely worth posting and sharing. I was brought up on a healthy dose of this type of music. To hear it in a theater production accompanying the dance moves of two graceful and elegant young dancers was just such a surprise and a delight. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
I had never paired this music with dancing of this sort. But I was also proud to see that something that to me had been so cemented in my childhood days as a manifestation of male-dominated, rancho-life, and alcohol flowing genre of Mexican Spanish language music now is being transformed into a much more elastic and versatile vehicle for the expression of dance. Not only that, but it is being done on a stage where before I had never seen that music played. And I mean "a stage" in a general sense, for the stage at the Edinburg City auditorium to me represents a platform for the higher arts. The ones that may be associated with a more distant, disconnected culture (think red wine and cheese) than those stages at the pulga (swap meet) where this kind of music might be much more of the expected norm (think tacos and espiro papas). It was a real treat and a rare occasion to see a dance troupe perform this and other beautiful routines that truly touched me. They took me back to my childhood past and brought me back to an adulthood present full of possibilities for the arts in the Rio Grande Valley. If you wish to know more about this group contact Jose Zamora at jzamoradance.com or visit their CholoRock Facebook page. |
AuthorGabriel H. Sanchez is an author, poet, actor, editor, and publisher from the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, on the border with Mexico. Gabriel is the author of "Once Upon a Bad Hombre," "The X Series," "The Martian Ones: Tales of Human Folly," and "The Fluid Chicano." You can read more about him and his other projects at gabrielhugo.com or on his Facebook page: @gabrielhugoauthor. Categories
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