Avenue 50 Studio
in collaboration with Regal House Publishing/Pact
Press invites you to join us in celebrating the launch of CROSSING THE BORDER: COLLECTED POEMS by
Daniel A. Olivas.
From award-winning fiction writer and book critic, Daniel
A. Olivas, comes his first collection of poetry. These narrative poems delve
deeply into the many ways we cross borders of race, culture, language,
religion, and privilege. With humor and pathos, Olivas draws from his own life
and from the stories of others to serve as a witness to the great variety of experiences
that make us human. With grace and eloquence, he invites readers to cross these
borders with him on this intense but necessary journey.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
TIME: 8 p.m.
VENUE: Avenue
50 Studio, 131 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park 90042
PARKING: Parking
is available in the unpaved parking lot behind the Studio, make sure to use the
dirt (unpaved) driveway for access. It’s the driveway closest to the train
station, on the North side of the building.
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Praise for Crossing the Border:
“The poetry of Daniel Olivas rings distinctly wise,
sensitive, and true. All are welcomed here, from the woman writing to her lover
in prison, to the victims of a tragic flood. The injustices and devastations of
past and present will not be silenced or erased because Olivas has called forth
a powerful community to the pages of Crossing
the Border. Cross over and listen to those who suffer and survive, and to
those who protest and persevere—each of them
‘speaking their own special language.’”
—Rigoberto González, author of Other Fugitives and Other
Strangers: Poems
“These haunting narrative poems by Daniel Olivas are
rooted in the heart of his beloved Los Angeles. They stretch across that
infinite, mythical place called the Borderlands and plant themselves firmly in
the unchartered territory of a new, great American literature. There is a
remarkable interlocutory immediacy to this collection. The poet calls out his
subjects one by one, be they persons or history itself. His muse is direct,
lyrical, piercing, exacting, glaring, unforgiving. In this extraordinary
collection, we hear a new-old America singing.”
—Himilce Novas, author of Mangos, Bananas and Coconuts: A Cuban Love Story
“Daniel Olivas’s poems are necessary things: they tell
stories that need to be told, render scenes that need to be seen, isolate
moments that need to be examined in all their beauty and suffering. In Crossing the Border, Olivas’s poems meld
numerous cultures, historic and current, and forge an identity that
incorporates insider and outsider. Actor and victim, witness and innocent, all
are represented in Olivas’s powerful first collection, engaging the reader in
the act of crossing over via the tools that language possesses when in skillful
hands.”
—Patty Seyburn, author of Hilarity: Poems
Avenue 50 Studio
is an arts presentation organization grounded in Latina/o culture, visual arts,
and the Northeast Los Angeles Community, that seeks to bridge cultures through
artistic expression, using content-driven art to educate and to stimulate
intercultural understanding.
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