E.A. Mares

About The Author

E. A. Tony Mares (1938-2015) was a poet, playwright, essayist, fiction writer, and historian born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of The Unicorn Poem and Flowers and Songs of Sorrow, With the Eyes of a Raptor, and Astonishing Light: Conversations I Never Had with Patrociño Barela (UNM Press).

Books by E.A. Mares

Reflections through the Convex Mirror of Time / Reflexiones tras el Espejo Convexo del Tiempo

Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War / Poemas en Recuerdo de la Guerra Civil Española

By E.A. Mares
Epilogue by Susana Rivera / Introduction by Enrique R. Lamadrid and Fernando Martín Pescador
In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E. A. Tony Mares posthumously shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War, whose shock waves still resonate with the political upheavals of our own times.
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Astonishing Light

Conversations I Never Had with Patrociño Barela

By E.A. Mares
E. A. Mares never crossed paths with the great New Mexico sculptor Patrociño Barela, but the conversations he imagines with this gifted Taos artist (c. 1900–1964)  are uncannily vivid and persuasive. Readers of Mares's play about Padre Martínez, another historic Taoseño, know that Mares was able ...
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