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The Ghost of César Chávez

by David Dominguez

  • The Ghost of César Chávez
  • Price: $14.95
  • Tradepaper, 6x9, 75 pages
  • ISBN 10: 1-936196-01-8
  • ISBN 13: 978-1-936196-01-2
  • March 2010

“By bringing us pear blossoms and knife blades, smells of salt and poison, Dominguez weaves an artful web out of the opposites that hold us together. History, both personal and communal, comes alive in the best way, here: through our bodies. As easily as we feel sprinkler water puddle under our toes, we also join Dominguez in the less sublime, but more poignantly human condition of gluttony (a box of Cheez-Its in one sitting—how often do you get to experience that guilty pleasure in a poem?). Even in encouraging his students to dream beyond the packinghouse, he foregrounds the physical: ‘Give them queso ranchero, and then, tell them to share their words.’ Read and savor these poems; join Dominguez ‘eating figs from the garden’ on his backyard patio for a plática poética—and finish fulfilled by the many ways his lively, compassionate narrations both awaken and placate new hungers.”
—Maria Melendez

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David Dominguez

dominguez_bwDavid Dominguez’s first book of poetry, Work Done Right, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2003. Dominguez’s poems have appeared in journals such as The Bloomsbury Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poet Lore, and The Southern Review. His work has been anthologized in Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes, and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, among others. He earned his B.A. in comparative literature from the University of California at Irvine and his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona. He teaches composition and poetry writing at Reedley College and is the co-founder and poetry editor of The Packinghouse Review.

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