Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses: Poems

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Rezensionen: To claim, as does the promotion, that "the marvelous and the real hold hands in this collection" is an overstatement. There is nothing marvelous in the flat, minimalist lines, characterized by a staccato voice using at the maximum six uncharged words per line. There is a sense of place here, presumably the Mexican-American Southwest, but the ordinary is so prevalent throughout that even that sense is destroyed. Most of the titles convey a banal quality: "Not Shaving on Some Days," "What a Boy Can Do," "Waiting for My Mother," "Fixing Tires," "How She Finds Me," etc. These poems offer no enigmas, no magic, no insights, no depth, no tension, and only a marginal sense of human drama. Devoid of subtlety and innovation, the language and structure might as well be prose. Our young Chicano/Latino poets are well advised to read Vallejo or Philip Lamatia's Touch of the Marvelous instead.
- Ivan Arguelles, Univ. of California at Berkeley
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