Ernesto Trejo is a poet of mysteries and incarnations, of secret unnamed presences, of the magical interior spaces of childhood and the luminous floating world that flares and throbs, that burns in time. His poems struggle to defy nothingness and death by recreating other lives, by letting other stories enter into his own story, by seeking communion with the lost and marginal, the otherwise forgotten by witnessing, imagining, and remembering. The dark impassioned poems of Entering a Life are wholly alive to the Whitmanian imperative: “Who touches this, touches a man.”
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- I
- One Summer
- August
- A Good Day
- Sunday
- Like the Earth
- Cipriana
- Summer
- The Cloud Unfolding
- A Death In the Family
- Entering a Life
- II
- This Is What Happened
- At My Window
- You
- Your Room
- Window Washer
- In Short
- On Friday Nights
- Dear Son Letter
- To the Child Dead In My Larynx
- I Will Tell You
- Because
- All These Years
- My Tongue Is the Tongue
- The Streets Held
- E. At the Zocalo
- E. Gives a Name
- E. Is In Love
- E. Curses the Rich
- The Arch Of the Sky Dream
- III
- At Dawn
- Clouds
- Autumn's Postcards
- It's Your Name and It's Also December
- 2 A.M.
- Red
- Tonight This House Speaks
- Waiting
- Autumn's End
- Today I'll Sit Still
- On a Birthday
- Some Sparrows
- The President Is Up Before the Fruit Vendor
- For Jaime Sabines
- Near an Air Force Base
- The Day Of Vendors
- Poem