Red Mountain Press seeks to promote original and insightful expression that contributes to the rich heritage of American literature. Red Mountain Press hopes that poetry, prose and essays will give voice to writing that engages, challenges and questions our ethical values and our assumptions about ourselves, our society, and our world. Currently, Red Mountain Press features the writings of J. Andrew Rodriguez. As Red Mountain Press evolves, it will feature the works of other authors.
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Now Available ~ “Floating down a mandolin’s string of laughter” is how J. Andrew Rodriguez celebrates life in Robins Facing South. Rodriguez’s poetry takes a compelling look at the breadth of the human condition. Teenage widows at a migrant labor camp, a preacher’s infatuation with war, and a refugee’s flight from torturers form themes of irony and anguish. Kindness assembles on the “grandstand of human conciliation,” while elsewhere a demon seizes the “pendulum of sanity and swings it with monstrous abandon.” Rodriguez examines our struggle to understand each other when “we forget the alchemy of our words.” Rodriguez also touches on what remains in life when we lose love, and loved ones. Nature is vibrant in this book. A Northwest sunset looks “as if God has broken open a ruby and poured it out over the clouds.” “Grave Digger for a Mexican Baby,” “Blind Man News,” and “The Mayor’s Son’s Shirts” are among poems that draw generously from Rodriguez’s South Texas roots. |
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