An art historian, curator, and editor specializing in Latino and Latin American art, Roberto Tejada was born in Los Angeles. He earned a BA in comparative literature from New York University and a PhD in interdisciplinary media studies from the English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of the poetry chapbooks Gift & Verdict (1999) and Amulet Anatomy (2001) as well as the full-length collections Mirrors for Gold (2006) and Exposition Park (2010).
Vulnerable therein & perfectly
relinquished by statis,
object always of my
natal, crepuscular desire,
...
There is someone who knows.
In no beginning
was there just one language
nor did the surface gleam
...
When from my counted days I think of
times still owed to me by tyrant love,
and my temples anticipate a frost
...
When I stop to consider my calling, remark
the places a wayward temper impelled me
I've found in light of where I wandered lost
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