Michael Luis Medrano was born and raised in Fresno, California, the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and he has performed his work at Stanford University, The Loft Literary Arts Center in Minneapolis, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He served as poetry editor for the literary journal Flies, Cockroaches, & Poets, is featured on the spoken word CD "The Central Chakrah Project" (Metamorfosis Productions), and has taught writing workshops in Fresno and Minneapolis. Once again based in Fresno, Medrano is teaching, hosting a literary radio show, and writing a novel and a second collection of poetry.
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Great Book of Poetry,
This review is from: Born in the Cavity of Sunsets (Paperback)
Quite a joy to read and full of amazing stories. Well crafted poems, images that pop off the page and linger with you for days. Set in the central valley of califis, Fresno, the dirt and dust and lives of the people there rise with dignity. Be it an elegy to his father, or an uncle just out of prison, or a Postcard to Ginsberg, the poems are worth reading, and reading again... Even if you have to pay shipping, this is worth the price of admission! (from "Poem for My Tio One Week after His Release") Tonight there are no mad-dog stares, only hard embraces from friends, relatives you've done time with. Tonight the moon is still an accusing lamp over Fresno Street, your cousin is the man at the corner bumming dollars for beer, and your mother is reciting the rosary in an empty room, meditating on beads of smoke.
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