The Unicorn Poem and Flowers and Songs of Sorrow
Poet, historian, and college professor E. A. Mares was one of the leading lights of the Chicano renaissance. His Unicorn Poem, first published in 1980, has been hailed as a Chicano epic. The present volume includes thirty later poems under the subtitle “Flowers and Songs of Sorrow,” a meditation on the inevitable reversal of triumphs of conquest.
5½ x 8½ inches • 80 pages • ISBN 0-931122-65-1
Mares proposes not a myth of bloodletting, but one of survival in love and goodness. His is an image of the unity of all peoples who would side with nature against the spoilers of the earth. To avoid fixation on the enemy, he prefers to concentrate on his own people, but always through the lens of the writer whose real material is language.”
Bruce Novoa
