"In Ramón García's elegant poems, we encounter figures as unlikely as John the Baptist and Henry James, the fellow exiles of a poet's childhood. Garcia's The Chronicles traces the life of a young boy's imagination as he reaches for beauty at the edge of a flat horizon. Here, near the fields and canneries of California's Central Valley, in the immigrant suburbs that turn us all into Americans, the poet becomes the traveler of his own landscape. Solitary and observant, García moves through myth to his own story as the person who writes his way into the world."
--Molly Bendall

"Ramón García's The Chronicles is wondrously deceptive. At first we may think we know the folkloric stuff dreams are made of, but soon one is inside a unique world where, through language and ritual, an edgy authority speaks through metaphor, chronicling the underbelly of the spoken and unspoken, and at times even the unspeakable. The Chronicles unearths things we didn't know we knew--surprising, new, clear-eyed twists and turns. This collection of urgent poems, partly woven from stories inherited, sings through the past to the present and future."
--Yusef Komunyakaa