Insomnia: Love Poems
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Insomnia: Love Poems . . . In his second collection of poetry, Edward Vidaurre, an emerging voice in Hispanic and Chicano poetry, offers new poems about love, coffee, sleep, and loss inspired by bouts of insomnia, and the vivid dream-like imagery that a lack of sleep creates. With an introduction by award-winning author Katherine Hoerth. Pick up this book on those weird and wonderful nights when it's 2:07 a.m. and the waning echoes of yesterday's shattered dreams and sprightly nightmares reverberate madly against the thickly transparent rays of the moon. In this collection of poems, Edward Vidaurre captures the lingering accusations and celebrations of the night that mingle with the fresh affirmations of the morning through poems filled at times with umbrage and desperation and at others with the sort of devilish charm that has come to define his candid wit. Like a bad dream that won't go away or a good dream that just makes one's day Vidaurre's new collection, Insomnia, rouses us with a twitch and spilt coffee jerk and lulls us with knowing nods to those moments of clarity and opaqueness, of sweetness and acrimony, of haunting realism that can't help but keep us awake for just one more poem.
Edward Vidaurre
Born in L.A., CA in 1973, Edward Vidaurre has been been published in several anthologies and literary journals among them La Bloga, Bordersenses, La Noria, Left Hand of the Father, Brooklyn & Boyle - Boundless Anthology of the Valley International Poetry Festival 2011, 2012, & 2013. His book 'I Took My Barrio On A Road Trip' (Slough Press) was released in 2013. Vidaurre's second collection insomnia (El Zarape Press, 2014) is now available.
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Insomnia - Edward Vidaurre
INTRODUCTION
Bloodshot and Always Awake:
An Exploration of Voice, Influence, and Evolution
Katherine Hoerth
I first met Edward Vidaurre at an open mic poetry reading back in 2011. He was new in our humble poetry scene, and I remember, as the evening was winding down, he took the mic. We were on the patio of this Cuban restaurant; my beer was empty and my belly was full like the midnight moon that hovered above us. Edward’s words awoke me from my daze, demanded my attention, my wonder. He left the audience breathless, and from that moment on, the poetry scene in the Rio Grande Valley was