The Great Whirl of Exile - Quintana, Leroy V
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For those who know his history, it is no surprise that Leroy V. Quintana is a great storyteller in his poetry. He was raised in Albuquerque by Mexican grandparents, who told him numerous folktales (Cuentos) as a child. "In many ways, I'm still basically a smalltown New Mexico boy carrying on the oral tradition, " he comments. His work is endowed not only with a raucous frontier humor, but also a remarkable emotional range, from comic depictions of adolescent love to moving poems of death and loss, to reflections on his war experience in Vietnam. Yusef Komunyakaa commented about Quintana's…mehr

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For those who know his history, it is no surprise that Leroy V. Quintana is a great storyteller in his poetry. He was raised in Albuquerque by Mexican grandparents, who told him numerous folktales (Cuentos) as a child. "In many ways, I'm still basically a smalltown New Mexico boy carrying on the oral tradition, " he comments. His work is endowed not only with a raucous frontier humor, but also a remarkable emotional range, from comic depictions of adolescent love to moving poems of death and loss, to reflections on his war experience in Vietnam. Yusef Komunyakaa commented about Quintana's Vietnam poems in Interrogations: "Leroy Quintana's poems, these shards of penetrating clarity, are filled with surprises that force us to question ourselves."
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Leroy V. Quintana is a major force in contemporary poetry. Author of five previous books of poetry and twice winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, Mr. Quintana is represented in numerous anthologies and his work has been the subject of several studies. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1944 and served in Vietnam during 1967-68, where he kept a notebook that became the source for many of his poems. At present, he is Professor of English at San Diego Mesa College.