The poems in Emigrant Creek and Other Songs are attuned to particular places: Puerto Rico, Spain, upstate New York, Vermont, Montana. Out in nature, alfresco, Fred Arroyo's lyrical and meditative poems, enrich the growing chorus of Latinx experience. In a world of impatient, frenetic, lonely days, Arroyo writes from stabilitas loci, an attentive stillness, where vulnerability and yearning search for nourishing enchantment. And from this place, the striking images, vivid palette, and evocative music discover swift departures-migrations clear, strong, and fast as a creek alive in its earthly song.
