as orion falls
American Book Award-winning poet aaron a. abeyta finds beauty in the unexpected, whether it’s the melody of a raindrop striking a tin can or the complicated and intensely personal definitions of poetry itself.
as orion falls, a spectacular and intricate narrative array of poems, exposes and magnifies the constellations of everyday life — with its memory, pain, and joy. Weaving nostalgia, mythology, and wrenching passion, abeyta crafts language with exceptional care, and his achievement is a collection that speaks the truths we know from our own experience. An accessible entry into a self-contained world of the purest loves imaginable, as orion falls is a feast that feeds our secret dreams.
"There is no other voice that conjures the sky and keeps count of stars as human migrations, moving, fading, and bursting anew as aaron abeyta’s. Here he is standing naked and alone on the abandoned snow drifts and tierras, holding them as fallen angels and stellar evidence of our birthright — the luminous lands we claimed we would honor thirty-five years ago. Abeyta speaks with the voices of Nazim Hikmet, Jim Sagel, Allison Hedge-Coke and Albert Hunter, all lovers of the small earth and its collosal heart." — Juan Felipe Herrera author of Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box
Available now from Ghost Road Press.