Donald Levering’s 11th poetry book, Algonquins Planted Salmon, makes myths into poems of wonder and warning. It celebrates dancing cranes, flitting moths, and falling stars. It likewise decries river damming, coal mining, and monstrous poisonings, such as at Fukushima and the sonic onslaught on dolphins. It is a book in which, “Nature is making her last […]
The Two Valleys Saga: Book Three
Was the death the result of murder … suicide … or did someone else seize the opportunity to shift the blame onto the Lees? Jesús’ memoir explores these, and other questions that arise as he recovers from comatic amnesia. While struggling to rediscover his past, he finds solace in the structure and strict values of […]
The Two Valleys Saga: Book Two
Jesús continues imparting his memoir journey, hoping to find solace, and understanding about the events that led to his uncle’s and young cousin’s heinous murders. His coming-of-age story reveals the trials, tribulations, and torment of an adolescent’s life as he attempts to claw his way to manhood while discovering life and love and excelling in […]
Book One of The Two Valleys Saga
At 14 years old, Jesus ‘Chuy’ Perez Contreras Verazzi Messi is too small and frail to work the land on the family farm near the Rio Bravo in Mexico. The local padre’s tutoring reveals Jesus’s unending curiosity and fertile mind. Noted Las Cruces, New Mexico attorney, and politician, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain agrees to take […]
Prequel to The Two Valleys Saga
In this prequel to “The Two Valleys Saga,” we discover the reasons Jesús’s family sent him to live with the Fountains and learn about his life with his family in a small colony near El Porvenir, Mexico. Jesus, known to his family by his nickname ‘Chuy,’ begins to feel lonely and an outcast. Chuy has […]
Obstacles, Passages, Healing & Magic
Poems on the Road to Love uses poetry to probe and try to understand the many passages that challenge us or help us in finding love during this journey of life. The first half of this book explores the stressful trials we may encounter on the journey, while the second half looks at how we […]
