Cenzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment (Poetry * Drama) Daniel García Ordaz The Poet Mariachi ISBN: 978-0692077528 FlowerSong Books April 23, 2018 (Release Date) Paperback 111 pages $15.00 ($10 for a limited time as pre-orders!) Contact: Daniel García Ordaz Twitter: @poetmariachi E-mail: poetmariachi@gmail.com
Book Description Daniel García Ordaz, The Poet Mariachi, author of You Know What I'm Sayin'? (El Zarape Press, 2006), encourages readers to perform the text aloud in his new collection, Cenzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment, a polyglottic exhibition of empowerment through performance. The new collection is an assortment of poetic forms, styles, and personas celebrating the dynamics of the human voice & spirit, such as his adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet." Influenced by and dedicated to the memories of the late Maya Angelou and Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
Back Cover Blurbs Daniel García Ordaz's collection feels like walking into a circle of old friends . . . a delightful trilingual party . . . saxopholaying the music in a fresh, raw manner, allowing the mischievous metaphor to emerge. . . . His verses are deeply rooted in the unapologetic Tejano way of life. ~Raúl Sánchez, author of All Our Brown-Skinned Angels
Tackling the tough issues such as racial discrimination, poverty, and gender inequality with sharp wit, endearing humor, and grace, these poems ring with empowerment for all. Daniel García Ordaz is a vital voice in contemporary poetry—at once delightful and always resounding with truth.
~Katie Hoerth, Editor, Lamar University Literary Press
Like a modern Michelangelo of words, Daniel adopts the classical form inherited from the Greeks while evoking the iconic spirit of Robert Herrick and George Herbert and Guillaume Apollinaire.
~Michael Jones (from the Introduction to Cenzontle/Mockingbird)